Her research focuses on novel synthetic routes of exotic nanomaterials for energy application such as CO2 capture.
She obtained her PhD in 2011 from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, working on the synthesis and applications of metal phosphide nanoparticles.
[1] In 2014, she joined the French National Center for Scientific Research as a researcher in the team Hybrid Materials and Nanomaterials of the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris (LCMCP), associated with Sorbonne University and Collège de France, with a L'Oreal-UNESCO-Académie des Sciences Fellowship.
[4] In 2017, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to work on small molecules activation at the surface of nanoparticles.
[5] Carenco's research during her undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training was on the use of white phosphorus to synthesize nickel-containing nanoparticles[6] which can be constructed into defined sizes,[7] and investigating the catalysis of reactions of nickel nanoparticles with alkynes,[8] and nanoscaled reaction mechanisms with borides and phosphides.