Prof Dr Yvonne van der Meer (Y.)
Committees
- Member of the Educational Program Committee, MSc. Biobased Materials
- Member of the Assessment Platform, Master programs in Sciences
- Jury member of the Menno Knetsch Master Thesis Award, Master Biobased Materials
Courses
- BBM1001, Biobased Materials & Skills Proposal Writing, MSc. Biobased Materials, 6 ECTS
- BBM1013, Sustainability of Biobased Materials, MSc. Biobased Materials, 6 ECTS
- BENC2015 Biobased Materials, Bachelor Business Engineering, 5 ECTS
- BENP 1002, Circular Economy Project (LCA), BSc. Business Engineering, 5 ECTS
- CEN1001, Engineering in a Circular Economy, BSc. Circular Engineering, 5 ECTS
- CEN2022 Biobased Materials, Bachelor Circular Engineering, 5 ECTS
- EBC2187, Sustainability and Social-Ecological Systems, BSc. Minor Sustainability, 5 ECTS
- INT3005, Biobased Materials & Technology, BSc. Maastricht Science Program, 5 ECTS
- PRO1110 Life Cycle Assessment Project, Bachelor Circular Engineering, 5 ECTS
- Online training module “Life Cycle Assessment: Basic Principles and Uses”
Academic advising & thesis supervision
- BSc. Maastricht Science Program Academic Advisor
- MSc. Biobased Materials, Academic advisor
- BSc. Maastricht Science Program Bachelor Thesis supervisor
- BSc. University College Maastricht, Capstone supervisor
- BENP2004 Bachelor Thesis Supervision, Bachelor Business Engineering
- BBM5000 Master Thesis supervision, Master Biobased Materials
- Supervisor BBM Master thesis, Robin Neven, Scrutinizing the End-of-Life: Holistic Prospective Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Bell Pepper Packaging, 2023
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis, Paola Vander Velde, Life Cycle Assessment of a Novel Bio-based Technology for the Protection of Citrus Trees, 2023
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis Ellen van den Broek, Sustainable actions of the pharmaceutical industry: an empirical case study of companies in Germany and the United Kingdom, 2023
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis Lena-Marie Götze, Analysis of reported environmental sustainability strategies in the Dutch dairy industry and their alignment to the Sustainable Development Goals, 2023
- Supervisor BBM Master thesis, Michelle Gian, Comparative LCA study of two promising pathways to produce biobased TPA using Miscanthus, 2021
- Supervisor BBM Master thesis, Sergio Molino Aguado, Small scale Lignin First biorefinery in Spain. Analysis of potential feedstocks, feasibility study and impact assessment, 2021
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis, Jacob Firth, Sustainability Assessment of Seaweed based Furfural Production, 2021
- External Supervisor, Master thesis, Heli Saastamoinen, The life cycle analysis of the material usage for camouflage radio unit (CRU), Tampere University, Finland, 2021
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis, Cian Ryan, The development of an Excel tool to analyse the effect of carbon taxes on marginal abatement costs in the EU chemical industry, 2021
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis, Ella Carmi, Modernizing Waste Management within the Footwear Industry, 2020
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Supervisor UCM Capstone Thesis, Hildur Þórbjörg, Chemical recycling for a circular plastics economy: main challenges for polyethylene and polylactic acid, 2020
- Supervisor MSP Bachelor Thesis, Ander Villar Thompson, Traceability of Embodied Energy in Circular PET Waste Management Flows: an Application to the Netherlands, 2020
- Supervisor Maastricht Science Program student project PRO 3001, Is current EU environmental legislation scientifically literate?, with 12 MSP students, 2020
- Supervisor internship Master of Chemistry, Nathalie Ly, Life Cycle Assessment of the upscaling of a lactone process, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 2019
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Supervisor MARBLE project UCM, Gigi Flamand, Advancing Sustainability through Student-Teacher Partnerships, 2018
- Initiator and teacher InSciTe online training module “Life Cycle Assessment: Basic Principles and Uses” for academics and professionals (2017-)
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Supervisor MSP bachelor thesis, Chidera Chukwumah, A literature review of the environmental impacts of Pre-hydrolysis and Hydrolysis technologies of lignocellulosic biomass, 2017
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Supervisor UCM capstone project, Yagmur Masmas, A pathway to “hidden” land use impacts? Towards a change-oriented environmental impact assessment promoting sustainable and regionally specific implementation of large-scale biobased material production, 2017
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Chair of the steering group of the OP Zuid project Biobased Materials Plus. This project aims at accelerating the development of the Master Biobased Materials at Brightlands Chemelot Campus, 2017-2019
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Online Lecture, Materials for a sustainable society, Maastricht University, 14 October 2016
Prof Dr Yvonne van der Meer (Y.)
Professor & group head Sustainability of Chemicals and Materials
Scientific vice-director Academic Affairs, Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials
Academic Co-Lead Sustainable UM2030 programme