Science and Technology
in feminine "OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF..."
Samira Khodayar Pardo Teheran, Iran (1977) Head of the Meteorology and Climatology department at the Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM). She is an expert in extreme meteorological phenomena and Climate Change in the Mediterranean basin Graduate in Physics from the University of Valencia and PhD in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), and Researcher of Excellence of the GenT plan (CIDEGENT-GVA), a talent recovery program of the GVA for researchers of excellence. Member of GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges) World Climate Research Program (WRCP), Member of the Board of the Harry Otten Foundation, for innovation in the field of Meteorology, member of the Steering Committee of the COST MedCyclones Action and principal coordinator of the COST FutureMed Action. She was awarded the LEVANTE-EMV2022 prize in the Environment category.
Laura Martí Montaner Gandía, Valencia, España (1986) Thanks to the application of the Principles of Green Chemistry in the plastics sector, a lower environmental impact of polymer synthesis is possible as well as the valorization of different sorts of waste into raw materials She holds a PhD in Sustainable Chemistry from the Universitat Politècnica de València (2015) and focuses her research on the design and synthesis of catalysts for obtaining fine chemical products in multistage processes. Subsequently, she expanded her investigations at Queen's University Belfast until 2017, where she carried out continuous hydrogenations for the recovery of waste oils into biodiesel. In 2018 she became part of the AIMPLAS team in the Synthesis department and since 2020 she is the Decarbonization leader. Her career has been focused on improving the sustainability of the synthesis of raw materials and monomers from both non-renewable and renewable sources. The use of catalysts in polymerization processes makes carrying out the synthesis at lower temperatures and times possible. In addition, the properties of the final material can be tuned for its application concerning thermal and mechanical stability and food contact compatibility. Moreover, even the stable CO2 molecule can be converted, thanks to the use of catalysts, into polymers, solvents, inks or electrolytes for batteries.
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