Paulina is an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in Process Systems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, and leads the LOOPS research group. She is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, and an Early Career Advisory Board member for Control Engineering Practice (IFAC) and Minerals Engineering journals, and a Scientific Editor for Results in Engineering (Elsevier).

Awards & Recognitions

• Outstanding Research Supervision nominee, UCL Students’ Union — 2026
• Malcolm McIvor Prize, CPACT — 2025
• MEI Young Person’s Award 2021, Minerals Engineering International — 2022
• IChemE Global Awards — Young Researcher finalist — 2022
• 1st Place Best Poster Award, Society of Chemical Industry — 2022
• SCI Scholar 2020, Society of Chemical Industry — 2020
• Award to the Best Chemical Engineering Graduate, Nacional Engineering College, Chile — 2017

Teaching

• Module leader, Mining and Mineral Processing, UCL — Oct 2025–present
• Module leader, Fluid Mechanics, Brunel University of London — Oct 2024–Jul 2025
• Module leader, Process Systems Engineering, Brunel University of London — Jan 2024–Jul 2025
• Guest Lecturer, Mining Geology and Engineering, Imperial College London — Dec 2022
• Guest Lecturer, Process Control and Applied Statistics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María — Mar 2018–Aug 2018