Vania Zuin Zeidler

Dr. Dr. Vania Zuin Zeidler is a Full Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Chemistry at Leuphana University (Germany), and currently the Pro-Dean of Gender and Diversity, the Coordinator of the new Master Program "Sustainability Science: Resources, Materials and Chemistry (M.Sc.)" and the Chair of the PhD Committee Dr. rer. nat. at the Faculty/School of Sustainability. Her background is Green and Sustainable Analytical Chemistry and Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education, with major interests in developing analytical methods that are incipient to determine renewable and bioactive high-value organic substances extracted from agro-industrial residues. She was the Founding Director of the Field & Food Tech Hub -UFSCar (http://fieldfoodtechhub.ufscar.br/), a RD&I platform aiming at being a centre of excellence in green technologies and sustainability in resilient agro-industrial sectors in all aspects, from farm to fork. Prof. Zuin Zeidler is author of several publications of high impact in the areas of her expertise and has been invited to give several lectures in the academic and industrial sectors. As a participant of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation research network started in 2005, she was elected president of the Club Humboldt in Brazil in 2015, being its permanent honorary counsellor. Recent distinctions include the 52o and 57o National Literary Jabuti Awards (Brazil), the title of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York (UK), the IUPAC 2014 CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry, the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2015, the ACS-CEI Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education, sponsored by the ACS in 2017 (USA) and Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation and AvH Foundation at Leuphana (Germany, 2020 and 2021) and Visiting Professor at the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York (UK) from 2013 to 2023, pointed as "expert voice" at Science Journal (AAAS) in 2023 and Creative Lead of the Residency Programme of the AvH Foundation on the topic of the "Future of food" in 2025.