Patrícia Verardi Abdelnur

Graduated in Chemistry (Bachelor's Degree) from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), holds a Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry (Natural Products) from the same university and a PhD in Chemistry from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She did a sandwich doctorate at the Mass Spectrometry Research Center, at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville - USA. Her main area of research is focused on the area of #8203;#8203;Metabolomics of Plants and Microorganisms using Mass Spectrometry (targeted and untargeted) for applications in biotechnology in (agro)industry, in the concept of bioeconomy, Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Microorganisms and Plants and Bioprospecting of Compounds Bioactive and with high added value from different matrices, such as waste, by-products and biomass. She was a visiting researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung in Leipzig - Germany (2022).She completed the MBA: Management of Innovation and Technological Capacity at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.Worked as a technical consultant at the Research and Development Center (CENPES) of PETROBRAS. Currently, she is part of the staff of EMBRAPA Agroenergia in the position of researcher A. And she works as a professor in the Graduate Program at the Institute of Chemistry at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). She has extensive experience in management positions. She served as Coordinator of the EMBRAPII-Embrapa Agroenergia Biochemistry and Renewables Chemistry Unit: Microorganisms and Enzymes (2017-2023), and is currently part of the Management Committee of the U. EMBRAPII, as lead researcher of projects. From 2020-2024, she was Deputy Head of Technology Transfer at Embrapa Agroenergia, working in Innovation and Business Management. In her current management, she coordinates the Technologies Prospecting and Assessment Sectors, Communication and Marketing Sector, Technology Transfer Programming Implementation Sector, in addition she was President of the Local Innovation Committee, President of the Local Publications Committee and Member- member of the Internal Technical Committee of Embrapa Agroenergia. She has experience in team leadership, people management, process management, financial management and articulation with governmental and international entities, such as institutions and delegations and other countries. She is a guest scientist at Helmholtz Institute for Environmental Research, developing the project: "Integration of Multi-Omics for the production of bioproducts from yeast via biotechnological routes". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)