PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Carolina Tallon Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Advanced Manufacturing Team-College of Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA, 24061 [email protected] |
|
|
Bio
Dr. Carolina Tallon is an Associate Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department and one of the members of the Advanced Manufacturing Team (AMT) of the College of Engineering. She completed her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Granada (Spain) and received her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Ceramic and Glass and the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid (Spain). She went to Australia in 2008 to undertake post-doctoral research developing ceramic materials for advanced defence applications. Since then she contributed to research and teaching in the School of Engineering, and she was Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Melbourne, and the Academic Convenor of the Hallmark Materials Research Initiative at the University of Melbourne. She was member of the Particulate Fluid Processing Centre (PFPC) and a key member of the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC). She then joined Virginia Tech in 2016. Her research interest focuses on near-net-shaping and advanced manufacturing of ceramics for extreme environments, colloidal processing, interparticle forces and rheology, Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics, porous materials, multiscale microstructural complexity and innovative, cost-effective processing techniques Dr. Tallon was one of the 12 Australian Fresh Scientists in 2012 and she was part of the research group who won the prestigious Land Defence Australia National Industry Innovation Award in 2014 and CRC Innovation Award in 2015. She was the recipient of the 2020 Engineering Ceramics Division Jubilee Global Diversity Award, from the American Ceramic Society. She was the Chair of the 3rd and 5th conferences in the series “Ultra High Temperature Ceramics: Materials for Extreme Environment Applications” in April 2015 and June 2022, respectively. She is a member of scientific committees in other international conference in materials, science and engineering.. Full list of publications (click here) |
At a glance....
-33 peer-reviewed papers, 3 journal covers, 2 book chapters, 8 proceedings and several other non-peer review publication. More than 1000 citations. h-index=17 -Total of 77 conference contributions, 10 invited talks in conferences, 3 invited contributions to specialized workshops and forums - More than $4.7M in total research funding since joining VT. Multiple sources: NSF, DoD, DoE, DoEd - 24 undergraduate research students, 27 undergraduate students as part of senior design teams, 6 graduate students, 1 postdoctoral fellow and 2 research assistants since joining Virginia Tech) - Co-Chair of “Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics: Materials for Extreme Environment Applications V”, June 2022, Snowbird (USA). - Chair of Diversity Committee of Materials Science and Engineering- Virginia Tech, 2016-ongoing. |