Dr Verônica de Carvalho Teixeira, who has just won Brazil's For Women in Science L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Tealent prize, will be joining the PPSM laboratory from March 12 to April 12, 2024. She is making exceptional advances in luminescence methods for the study of energy materials and complex compounds found in cultural heritage and natural history.
During her invited professorship, she will be teaching students in ENS Paris-Saclay Chemistry department, contributing to the 80|prime CNRS project co-directed by Dr Loïc Bertrand (PPSM laboratory) and Dr Arnaud Brayard (Biogéosciences laboratory), developing joint projects on chemical education and pedagogy, and organising a symposium on the development of innovative methods for studying heritage at the Université Paris-Saclay.
Dr Verônica de Carvalho Teixeira is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) and in the Sirius synchrotron facility.