Juliana Ladeira Vidal

Juliana is a Ph.D. candidate in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group at Memorial University of Newfoundland, supervised by Dr. Francesca Kerton. She previously completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, in Brazil. Juliana is an executive member of the Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers (NESSE), and a communications intern for the Beyond Benign organization. In her current research, Juliana is investigating new applications for biochar, a material produced within the forestry, wood and paper industries that has the potential to sequester greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change effects.