Giorgio Carta
About
Giorgio Carta received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1984 and is currently the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He has published extensively in the area of adsorption and ion exchange with emphasis on protein chromatography. He has co-authored the book “Protein Chromatography – Process Development and Scale-Up," Wiley-VCH, 1st ed. 2010, 2nd ed. 2020, has served as section co-editor of Section 16 “Adsorption and Ion Exchange” of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7th, 8th, and 9th edition, and authored the textbook "Heat and Mass Transfer for Chemical Engineers: Principles and Applications," McGraw-Hill, 2021. He has served as member of the Organizing Committee of PREP International Symposium, Exhibit & Workshops on Preparative and Process Chromatography since 1997 and as Chair of the PREP Symposium annually from 2009 through 2022. He has also been involved extensively in professional education in the field of protein chromatography, including leading a short course in protein chromatography held twice a year at the University of Virginia. Giorgio Carta has served an Editor of Biotechnology Journal from its founding through 2022 and as a member of the Editorial Board of Separation Science & Technology. He has been a consultant for a number of chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Education
B.S. Laurea in Chemical Engineering, Universitá di Cagliari, Italy, 1980
M.Ch.E. in Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1982
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1984
"We employ experimental and theoretical engineering approaches to understand the fundamental underpinnings of chromatographic separations and develop new materials and processes for bioseparation applications. Our goal is to improve biopharmaceutical production by developing the science basis to fundamentally understand chromatographic purification of biomolecules at manufacturing scale."