Dr Poonima Vijay (PALS 1st Cohort)

Completed Phd 2022 Doctor of Philosophy- Green Chemistry and Biopolymer Chemistry

Thesis Title: Green oxidation of lignocellulose to obtain nanocellulose and its applications.

Supervisors: Prof. Kei Saito, A/Prof. Warren Batchelor

Employment: Postdoctoral fellow at Monash University.

Poornima completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from Mangalore University, India. Recently, she was awarded a Doctoral degree for her thesis on “Green oxidation of lignocellulose to obtain nanocellulose and its applications, which was supervised by Assoc. Prof. Kei Saito and Assoc. Prof. Warren Batchelor. Poornima is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University.