Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Almeida is a Brazilian chemist and academic. She works at the

São Paulo State University São Paulo State University (UNESP, pt, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho") is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil. UNESP has a combined student body of over 45,000 spread among its 23 c ...

and the Laboratory of Production and Environment and is a co-editor-in-chief of the

Journal of Cleaner Production The ''Journal of Cleaner Production'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering transdisciplinary research on cleaner production. It is published by Elsevier. The job of editor-in-chief is shared jointly by Jiří Jaromír Klemeš ( Brno Unive ...

Education

Bôas de Almeida has a degree in Chemical Engineering from

Mackenzie Presbyterian University Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Portuguese: ''Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie'') is a private university in São Paulo, Brazil. The Mackenzie Presbyterian University is an institution of higher learning that has strong tradition and history ...

and obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

in 1999.

Career

Bôas de Almeida is employed as a professor at the Institute of Exact Sciences and Technology and runs the post-graduate program at the Post-Graduation for Production Engineering at

. Her work focuses on

industrial ecology Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modelled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resource ...

and

cleaner production Cleaner production is a preventive, company-specific environmental protection initiative. It is intended to waste reduction, minimize waste and Air pollutants, emissions and maximize product output. By analysing the flow of materials and energy ...

She is also employed as a researcher at the Laboratory of Production and Environment. From 2012 to 2016, she was the executive editor of the journal ''Cleaner Production in Latin America,'' and since 2017 she has been the co-editor-in-chief of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Almeida, Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Living people Brazilian women chemists Brazilian chemists Mackenzie Presbyterian University alumni University of São Paulo alumni Academic staff of the São Paulo State University Academic journal editors Year of birth missing (living people)