Rosa Carceller Senior Scientist, Kemira Oy

Dr. Rosa Carceller is a researcher at Kemira Oy, Pulp and Paper division in Vaasa, Finland. Since joining Kemira in 2001 she has worked on the improvement of existing commercial products as well as on the development of new ones, such as the nanoparticles of acrylate copolymer to be presented in this Congress.
Over the last 20 years she has conducted research in the development and improvements of molecular structures and her work on Synthesis and Reactivity of Carbon and Nitro gen-ylides, earned her a PhD Cum Laude at University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain in 1991. Her involvement in polymers began in 1993, when the Spanish Government awarded her a Fellowship for the Research in Emulsion Polymers at the Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science of the University of Akron, in the USA, where she studied with Professor Emeritus Dr. I. Piirma. At the end of her appointment, Dr. Carceller moved to Birmingham, England, to work on a European Commission project for the development of biodegradable polymers for food packaging and biomedical applications, work carried out under the European Community Programme Brite-EuRam for Advanced Chemistry Research at Aston University with Professor A. J. Amass.
Dr. Carceller's work has been presented in numerous international conferences and recently published in Paperi ja Puu, a leading journal for the Pulp and Paper industry in Finland.