Yvonne Shashoua

Yvonne Shashoua

ORCID: 0000-0001-7371-7203

Yvonne Shashoua is a polymer chemist with more than 25 years experience of initiating, conducting and managing research into the analysis, composition and degradation pathways of synthetic polymeric materials in cultural heritage, the marine environment, industrial and building materials. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark. Yvonne transferred her knowledge and experience of analyzing plastics and understanding their degradation patterns in cultural heritage to the global challenge posed by marine litter to society in 2014.  She is currently a consortium partner in the interdisciplinary Velux Danish MarinePlastic research centre together with Aalborg-, Roskilde- and Aarhus Universities and the Technical University of Denmark (2019-2023) focusing on the fate and behaviour of plastic waste. Yvonne is an active and enthusiastic science communicator reflected by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals, conference proceedings and books and teaches postgraduate workshops in Europe, USA, Australia and Singapore. 

Yvonne Shashoua

Yvonne Shashoua

ORCID: 0000-0001-7371-7203

Yvonne Shashoua is a polymer chemist with more than 25 years experience of initiating, conducting and managing research into the analysis, composition and degradation pathways of synthetic polymeric materials in cultural heritage, the marine environment, industrial and building materials. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark. Yvonne transferred her knowledge and experience of analyzing plastics and understanding their degradation patterns in cultural heritage to the global challenge posed by marine litter to society in 2014.  She is currently a consortium partner in the interdisciplinary Velux Danish MarinePlastic research centre together with Aalborg-, Roskilde- and Aarhus Universities and the Technical University of Denmark (2019-2023) focusing on the fate and behaviour of plastic waste. Yvonne is an active and enthusiastic science communicator reflected by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals, conference proceedings and books and teaches postgraduate workshops in Europe, USA, Australia and Singapore.