Mariana Heringer

Achieve industrialization of production of both Alkaline and SOEC electrolysis for green H2 production. - Specification of all machines and equipment utilized in production for purchase. - Direct contact with suppliers, technical support, and commissioning of these machines and equipment.

Achieve industrialization of production by improving Sunfire solid oxide electrolyser cells in terms of durability and costs through reduction of degradation rates and development of new materials. - Responsible for external and internal Projects related to cell/stack development and material characterization.

Project: “Online Engagement for both Students and Staff” - Lead a variety of students from different places and cultures. - Organization of at least bi-weekly meetings to discuss the team work progress. - Help the team solving the problems encountered in the specific week. - Ensure the team did not lose focus and worked together as a team the whole time.

Assistance of students during chemistry experimental practice as well as lab reports marking.

Project: “Ethical Leadership & Enterprise Capabilities” - Lead a variety of students from different places and cultures. - Organization of at least bi-weekly meetings to discuss the team work progress. - Help the team solving the problems encountered in the specific week. - Ensure the team did not lose focus and worked together as a team the whole time.

First ASP coordinator in Chemistry Department. - Create a framework for subject-specific academic skills to be delivered to undergraduates via high quality workshops. - Coordinate overall project within the school, including the recruitment of other PGRs to act as workshop leaders. - Liaison with the Director of Teaching and other academic staff to design the overall programme. - Management of the budget, evaluation of the workshops, etc. - Ensure the workshop was successfully delivered

Notes taking during chemistry/math classes for disabled people that couldn't do it.

- Responsible for Patent processing (Deposit, Examination, Office Action, Unfavorable Technical Opinion, Appeal against Rejection), customer consultation and service concerning patent issues.

- Support to laboratory activities (responsible for all chemical analyses in the Equinor and Chevron FPSOs in Brazil). - Teamwork with people from many different countries, backgrounds, and social classes. - Daily reports preparation, flow calculation and chemical injections.

Project MAHLE - identification and solution of possible causes of the corrosion process in bearings for hybrid cars, as well as analyses performed with specimens. - Perform laboratory tests (eg, Electronic Scanning Microscope-SEM) required to understand the problem and take corrective action to solve it.

- Responsible for organizing and planning the entire French Pavilion at Offshore Technology Conference. - Support of logistics (assistance and management of human and technical resources), for providing services in Offshore Projects.

- Support in the preparation of contracts in the Gas & Energy department - Support in monthly reports preparation, keeping the history with the main topics of transport contracts.

Continuous improvement in rare earths sector - Preparation of a Training Module for the operators of La Rochelle plant - Accompanied liquid-liquid extraction team in battery sector, for observation of all analyses performed on site. - Understand the entire process of separating all the rare earth elements through liquid-liquid extraction.

- Support of pharmacists with prescriptions and training with all medications in store. - Check monthly spending of all products purchased, analyses of the receipt as well as the product quality, expiry date and status. - Direct contact with suppliers to solve problems.

Thesis: “Electrochemical evaluation using alternative fuel electrode materials for syngas production via HT CO2 and H2O co-electrolysis” Experimental type of PhD focused on Electrochemical characterization at HT using different type of FE materials in a electrolyte supported cell. Variation of parameters such as temperature, voltage, flow rate, gas composition (%H2, %CO2, %H2O) was utilized to analyse the influence of these parameters in cell resistance. Material optimization was also targeted.

Thesis: “Reliability of Safety Barrier Systems in Oil Wells by the Monte Carlo’s Method” By using excel, the Monte Carlo’s method was applied to establish the reliability of well barriers based on a specific well configuration.

Full 1 year Scholarship for Program Exchange in France (BRAFITEC agreement) - 6 months in INSA Rouen. - 6 months in La Rochelle as an intern at Rhodia (Solvay Group).

- Scientific Initiation (for 1 year) in the nanomaterials field - Volunteer work with underprivileged children. - 1 year in France as an Exchange Program.