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Adelina Voutchkova

Director of Sustainable Development, American Chemical Society

Adelina Voutchkova is the Director of Sustainable Development at the American Chemical Society and leads the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®. Adelina joined the ACS from George Washington University where her research program spans the two frontiers of green chemistry: the development of green synthetic methods through supported catalysis, and the development of predictive methods for identifying chemicals of toxicological concern. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the 2020 Early Career Researcher Award from GWU, and the 2021 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, among others. Adelina was previously a Research Associate and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. She completed her Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry at Yale with Bob Crabtree, focusing on atom-economical catalytic transformations facilitated by NHC complexes. She earned her BA from Middlebury College, where she worked with Prof. Sunhee Choi on the chemistry of Pt anticancer complexes.

2:45 - 4:15 pm

Monday December 8

Sustainability & Product Stewardship Council Program

Innovating for the Climate and Safer Products: Driving Carbon Reductions and Safety Through Chemistry

 

Speaker:

Adelina Voutchkova, Director of Sustainable Development, American Chemical Society

4:15 - 5:15 pm

Monday December 8

Young Professionals Committee Education Session

Skills for the Future: Preparing Chemists for Sustainable Chemistry Innovation in the Household and Commercial Products Industry

 

Speakers:                                           

Lisa Dreilinger, Global Head of Regulatory, Arxada

Meghan Lieb, Vice President, Global Research & Development, WD-40 Company

Adelina Voutchkova, Director of Sustainable Development, American Chemical Society