KCS Dedicated

Evelina Colacino is Associate Professor of Organic and Green Chemistry since 2013, at the University of Montpellier, France, her main research activities concern the development of eco-friendly methodologies for the preparation of biomolecules, heterocyclic compounds, and hybrid materials by mechanochemistry, with a main focus on value-added compounds for the industry and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (medicinal mechanochemistry). She also investigates sustainable approaches to homogeneous or heterogeneous metal-catalyzed processes by combining enabling technologies with non-conventional media. Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the International Mechanochemical Association (IMA), she is also a promoter of sustainability in Higher Education by integrating green chemistry at the undergraduate level in organic chemistry courses, teaching laboratories and across the sub-disciplines of chemistry, with a special focus on the fundamentals and the practice of mechanochemistry. Since 2019, she leads the European Programme COST Action CA18112 (MechSustInd) – ‘Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Industry‘