Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP12) Oil and Chemical Spill Response (1L)

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Dr Anna Nicolas-Kopec (International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, London)

Session Summary: ITOPF is a not-for-profit marine ship pollution response advisers providing impartial advice worldwide on effective response to spills of oil & chemicals. Annabelle is sent across the world to advise people on how to clean any oil or chemical spill occurring at sea.

Speaker Biography: Dr Annabelle Nicolas-Kopec is a Chartered Chemist and Technical Adviser at ITOPF (the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation) where she provides clean-up advice, assesses pollution damage, assists in spill response planning and provides training/information to the shipping industry. She has attended many ship-source incidents worldwide and has also provided risk assessments on numerous types of oil and hazardous substances. She has been coordinating the ITOPF R&D Award since its creation in 2011, and since then has supported the development of four winning research projects. She is also the ITOPF Representative at the IMO Pollution, Prevention, and Response subcommittee meetings and is a leading member of the ITOPF HNS (Hazardous and Noxious Substances) Working Group. Annabelle joined ITOPF in January 2011 after earning her doctorate in organic chemistry in 2010 in Cambridge with Matthew Gaunt.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

Lecture

1 hour