Professor Mae Joanne Aguila is an associate professor at the UP Los Baños Institute of Chemistry. She has always been passionate for scientific inquiry and chemistry teaching. She completed her BS Chemistry degree (cum laude) at UP Los Baños and her master’s and PhD degrees at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Prof. Aguila was awarded the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2015), and worked as a researcher for DSM Innovative Synthesis BV (The Netherlands).
Dr. Aguila has authored numerous peer-reviewed international publications, which have been widely cited by researchers worldwide. She is the Principal Investigator of the Aguila Research Group, which focuses on “the application of inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry for a wide range of catalytic organic transformations for biomass valorization to value-added chemicals, and environmental remediation.”