Ximena Carolina Schmidt Rivera
Global Challenges Research Fellow
Brunel University London
Uxbridge, Reino Unido
Life cycle thinking methodologies - life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental life cycle costing (LCC), social-LCA Sustainable food production and consumption; energy and food technologies. Circular Economy, waste valorisation, public engagement.
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Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Reino Unido, 2015
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Ingeniero Civil Quimco, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2008
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Ciencias de la Ingenieria, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2017
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Research associate Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Ciencias e Ingenieria
Manchester, Reino Unido
2015 - 2017
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Global Challenges Research Fellow Full Time
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
College of Engineering, Design and Physical Science
London, Reino Unido
2018 - A la fecha
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Global Challenges Research Fellow Full Time
Brunel University London
Uxbridge, Reino Unido
2018 - A la fecha
Co-supervising PhD students and MSc students at School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, UK and at Brunel University London
Guest lecturer at UAI and co-supervisor of MSc student.
Coordinator of TABCC - Take a Bite out of Climate Change https://www.takeabitecc.org/
Champion for Consumer Behaviour at the interdisciplinary STFC Food Network + 2.0 https://www.stfcfoodnetwork.org/champions.html
- GGDOT - Greenhouse Gas and Dietary choices Open source Toolkit (2018 to date) and TABCC - "Take a bite of Climate Change". GGDOT aims to develop an open access tool to enable data visualisation and analysis of dietary surveys and climate change impact, and TABCC outreach activities like a) “Hacknights” - engagement across datascientists, nutritionist, social, climate change and food scientist to aid understanding of GHG emissions associated with food consumption and diets (~8 events across the UK between May 2018 and May 2019) and b) Games and educational materials to use as public engagement tools in events such as Blue Dot Festival; Science Uncovered- European Research Nights, and Royal Society
Summer Science Exhibition 2019 (https://www.takeabite.info/);. Available at: https://www.ggdot.org
- Co-editor of MDPI Journal Sustainability, Special Issue “Healthy Sustainable Diets”, deadline December 31st, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/healthy_sustainable_diets
- Keynote presentation ‘Life cycle sustainability assessment of convenience food’ for the Industrial conference: ‘Meal Solutions 2.0’. Paris, September 12th-13th, 2018. Impacts: ~70 people
- Participant of the ‘UN Regional Multi-stakeholder consultations for Europe in preparation for the 2019 UN Environment Assembly’, September 3rd-4th, 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.
- Interview for Science section at Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ. June 24th, 2018.
- Webinar Special Interest Group, IChemE (Oct 11th, 2017): ‘The sustainability of food supply chains:
evidence from the UK ready-made meal sector’. Impact: ~50 participants. Available at:
http://www.icheme.org/communities/special-interestgroups/Environment/Events/2017/sustainability-food-supply-11oct.aspx#.WeRsvxNSzVo
Ximena Schmidt
Global Challenges Research Fellow
College of Engineering, Design and Physical Science
Brunel University London
Uxbridge, Reino Unido