The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Vannia's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Vannia

I current work as a Senior Technician in the radionuclide facility CoRIF.

I have been working at the University of Plymouth in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SoGEES) since 2020, previously as a Technician delivering support to the teaching and research team, undergraduate and postgraduate project students across and outside of the school. I have also been part of the teaching team for the CHM Advanced Analytical Techniques module (CHM3013 2021-2022 and 2022-2023) more specifically teaching Gas Chromatography. Concerning research development, I had an opportunity to take a secondment contract as a research assistant (July to September 2021) in surface treatment of absorptive materials for recovery of volatile anaesthetic gases in collaboration with academia and industry, with Dr Lee Durndell and industrial partner SageTech Medical. 

I previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2014 to 2018) in research institutes across the UK and Brazil where I gained extensive experience relating to the design and characterisation of hierarchically structured materials with catalytic activity for the transformation of biomass and waste materials into biofuels, value-added products and platform chemicals.

Contact Vannia

( 510 Davy Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 588671
vannia.santosdurndell@plymouth.ac.uk