Sarah Boudreau

Sarah Boudreau (she/her) is an early-career Postdoctoral Fellow at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. She works for Prof. Stephanie MacQuarrie to transform wasted by-products to valuable materials through pyrolysis. She completed her PhD in Chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she was supervised by Prof. Francesca Kerton and studied the valorization of Atlantic salmon processing wastes to achieve a circular economy and a more sustainable seafood industry. She was awarded an Ocean Graduate Excellence Network (OGEN) scholarship and worked directly with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). She was a Beyond Benign Ambassador for the Green Chemistry Connections series and has organized the headline Global Conversation on Sustainability (GCS) event with the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN). During her graduate studies, she engaged in promoting green chemistry and sustainability by co-organizing the university's 2024 Global Conversation on Sustainability Symposium, participating at the 2024 Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) symposium hosted by the University of Toronto & McGill, and presented at the 28th & 29th Green Chemistry & Engineering Conferences. She has also been involved with organizing the local IUPAC Global Women's Breakfasts at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Cape Breton University.