Dr. Vania Zuin
Dr. Vania Zuin is Professor of Green Chemistry and Sustainable Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil and a visiting Professor at the University of York (UK) and Leuphana University (Germany). She is
also Founding Director of the Field & Food Tech Hub, a multi-sector platform that promotes healthy and ethical living through green and sustainable products and processes.
Vania is recognised as internationally leading in her work on Green and Sustainable Chemistry and its application to biorefineries, waste valorisation and Education. Her major interests cover the development of analytical methods to extract and transform bioactive high-value organic compounds from agro-industrial residues. Also, her research focuses on the development of educational material for Higher Education. Having vast experience and a strong educational background, Professor Zuin works hard to advance diversity and inclusion in our field, especially in emerging economies and regions under economic and political constraints.
For more than 20 years Vania has been working to build up concepts and apply greener and more sustainable materials and technologies all over the world, leading / co-leading projects supported by agencies such as the Newton Fund, Fapesp, Capes, CNPq, Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) and Robert Bosch Foundations. She has been acting as member of committees and consultant of Brazilian and international institutions, e.g., ISC3, UN, UNESCO, UNIDO, UN Environment, IUPAC, Beyond-Benign, GCN, G2C2, Green-Chem, ACS, RSC, Brazilian Chemical Society, being in the last one responsible for the creation of the Green Chemistry Section.
Vania is author of many impacting and seminal publications (e.g, Science, Nature, ACS book series) and has been invited to give several plenary and keynote lectures, e.g., European Parliament; ACS National Meetings; Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conferences; RSC Faraday Discussion; IUPAC World Chemistry Congress and International Conference on Green Chemistry; SBQ Annual Meeting; International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries; China International Conference on Sustainable Technology & Development; SENAI; EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation. More than 25 MSc and PhD theses and postdoc projects have been supervised by her and, recent distinctions include the 52o and 57o National Literary Jabuti Bronze and Gold Awards (Brazilian Chamber of Book), title of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York, the IUPAC 2014 CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry, the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the ACS-CEI Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education and Fellow of the Robert Bosch and AvH Foundations.
More details can be seen on:
http://www.gpqv.ufscar.br/english/
http://www.pnsc.ufscar.br/
https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/isec/persons.html
https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/green/people/vaniazuin/