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
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
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-)
Supervisor MSP bachelor thesis, Chidera Chukwumah, A literature review of the environmental impacts of Pre-hydrolysis and Hydrolysis technologies of lignocellulosic biomass, 2017
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
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
Online Lecture, Materials for a sustainable society, Maastricht University, 14 October 2016