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Jerald Villarmino
Graduate Student
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Green Chemistry Philippines
Bio
Jerald Villarmino is a licensed chemist with extensive experience spanning academia, quality assurance, quality control, and research. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Green Chemistry and Sustainability at Chulalongkorn University, with a research focus on carbon capture technology.
As a Forum Moderator for Beyond Benign's GCTLC platform, Jerald fosters insightful discussions and ensures adherence to community guidelines. Previously, he served as a Chemistry Instructor at Visayas State University Tolosa, delivering lectures in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and forensic chemistry while mentoring students in research.
Jerald has held key roles in the pharmaceutical and food industries, including Quality Control Section Manager at Interphil Laboratories and Quality Assurance Supervisor at Universal Robina Corporation, showcasing his leadership in regulatory compliance, laboratory management, and training.
Passionate about sustainability, he founded Green Chemistry Philippines and volunteers with The Climate Reality Project, advocating for climate solutions and green chemistry education and research.
His overarching objective is to explore and champion sustainable solutions that harmoniously bridge the gap between technological advancement and the imperative of environmental conservation.
As a Forum Moderator for Beyond Benign's GCTLC platform, Jerald fosters insightful discussions and ensures adherence to community guidelines. Previously, he served as a Chemistry Instructor at Visayas State University Tolosa, delivering lectures in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and forensic chemistry while mentoring students in research.
Jerald has held key roles in the pharmaceutical and food industries, including Quality Control Section Manager at Interphil Laboratories and Quality Assurance Supervisor at Universal Robina Corporation, showcasing his leadership in regulatory compliance, laboratory management, and training.
Passionate about sustainability, he founded Green Chemistry Philippines and volunteers with The Climate Reality Project, advocating for climate solutions and green chemistry education and research.
His overarching objective is to explore and champion sustainable solutions that harmoniously bridge the gap between technological advancement and the imperative of environmental conservation.
About
GCTLC Roles
- Learning Object Peer Reviewers
- Forum Moderators
Beyond Benign Roles
- GCC Champion
Languages
- English
Ongoing Projects
- Green Chemistry Award Recipient working on Project GrEAT2: Green Education Academic Transition Tolosa.
- Speaking engagements about how green chemistry helps end the issue of climate change.
- Promote and apply green chemistry principles in my lectures and laboratory experiments.
My Groups
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| Toxicology for Chemists Group | This group is dedicated to supporting GCTLC users interested in learning about toxicology, assessing |
Open / Public |
| Green Analytical Chemistry | This is a group dedicated to GCTLC users interested in green analytical chemistry (including |
Open / Public |
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My Events
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38th Philippine Chemistry Congress (38PCC) and 2024 International Conference on Chemistry (IC2) | The Philippine Chemistry Congress is the biggest annual conference of chemists, chemistry educators and chemistry researchers in the Philippines. This brings chemists from academe, industry and government together in one venue to interact, share new knowledge and to collaborate. The |
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Published Articles
- Member of Integrated Chemists of the Philippines
- Volunteer Leader at Climate Reality Philippines
- Founder of Green Chemistry Philippines
- Member of American Chemical Society
- Volunteer Co-Adviser on chemistry-related research for STEM and undergraduate students.
Recent Activity
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: The use of AI is a big one (I wrote about it here) as well storing your safety-copy data in clouds instead of hard drives. Regarding HVAC (heating, ventilation A/C which makes up about 40-60% of a labs energy consumption) many labs have the air changed too frequently which is not really noticable for us scientists. @Jerald Villarmino you are absolutely right - and water baths or heating blocks left on are not wasting energy but also adding unnecessary wear & tear to the machine......
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: I LOVE this conversation! @Jerald Villarmino, you can use the EPA's flow chart to determine if the material is considered hazardous waste and if it has to be disposed of by a certified waste hauler, or if you can consult your local regulations for disposal. You can also use the SDS file to determine the waste disposal methods (section 13). As far as integration with students. I would be cautious opening up your inventory list to them, but rather use select chemical SDS files to help them identify the hazards and develop ideas for safer alternatives. Using the SDS they can look at the physical and chemical properties section (section 9) and stability and reactivity (section 10) to identify what properties they need to look for in an alternative. Then using sections 11-13 they can consider the toxicological, environmental, and disposal factors of their greener alternative. I don't have a lesson plan written for this, but it is something I have modeled in trainings before. @Stefanie Loomis I love the Personal Care Product activity you have. That is awesome!Also, The Laboratory Safety Institute is hosting 10 Safer Science Summits next summer and we will talk about this EXACT thing. We want to help you triage the legacy chemicals and understand how to properly dispose of them and then how to substitute for greener and safer alternatives. @Esther Hines attended our summit in Boston this last summer and maybe can share her experience with the Summit and if it helped her. Happy to talk safety anytime @Jerald Villarmino! ...
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: I LOVE this conversation! @Jerald Villarmino, you can use the EPA's flow chart to determine if the material is considered hazardous waste and if it has to be disposed of by a certified waste hauler, or if you can consult your local regulations for disposal. You can also use the SDS file to determine the waste disposal methods (section 13). As far as integration with students. I would be cautious opening up your inventory list to them, but rather use select chemical SDS files to help them identify the hazards and develop ideas for safer alternatives. Using the SDS they can look at the physical and chemical properties section (section 9) and stability and reactivity (section 10) to identify what properties they need to look for in an alternative. Then using sections 11-13 they can consider the toxicological, environmental, and disposal factors of their greener alternative. I don't have a lesson plan written for this, but it is something I have modeled in trainings before. @Stefanie Loomis I love the Personal Care Product activity you have. That is awesome!Also, The Laboratory Safety Institute is hosting 10 Safer Science Summits next summer and we will talk about this EXACT thing. We want to help you triage the legacy chemicals and understand how to properly dispose of them and then how to substitute for greener and safer alternatives. @Esther Hines attended our summit in Boston this last summer and maybe can share her experience with the Summit and if it helped her. Happy to talk safety anytime @Jerald Villarmino! ...
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: @Jerald Villarmino I think some are common (e.g,. paper towels, water, equipment being left plugged in, open hood sashes). The ambassador program for MyGreen Lab (https://mygreenlab.org/) has some videos that address these issues. These seem to me to be the low hanging fruit....
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: @Jerald Villarmino, thanks for the post. More info at Summer School webpage:https://www.greenchemistry.school/Looking forward to connecting and meeting the interested students!...
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: and tagging new group members so they see this thread and hopefully introduce themselves- @Oluwatosin Shokunbi , @Jerald Villarmino and @Jsimard . Welcome!...
- Jerald Villarmino was just tagged in a comment: Interesting questions @Jerald Villarmino! I keep a close eye on circular economy news because it's great content for Environmental News Bits. I searched the archives to find some recent examples that caught my eye. Most of these use upcycled waste, which I appreciate from a pollution prevention perspective. Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and moreNam-Joon Cho, a researcher at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, has been working to covert pollen's rigid outer shell into a microgel that can be used as a building block for more eco-friendly materials including paper, film, and sponges. Read the full story at Knowable Magazine. See also Plant pollen finds use in coral-friendly, skin-cooling sunscreen (New Atlas) that also covers research by Cho’s lab and is described in a paper recently published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.Toxic waste could become the next clean energy breakthroughBio-tar, once seen as a toxic waste, can be transformed into bio-carbon with applications in clean energy and environmental protection. This innovation could reduce emissions, create profits, and solve a major bioenergy industry problem.Harvard’s salt trick could turn billions of tons of hair into eco-friendly materialsScientists at Harvard have discovered how salts like lithium bromide break down tough proteins such as keratin—not by attacking the proteins directly, but by altering the surrounding water structure. This breakthrough opens the door to a cleaner, more sustainable way to recycle wool, feathers, and hair into valuable materials, potentially replacing plastics and fueling new industries.New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable EV batteriesA research team from MIT wants to keep EV batteries out of landfills. They've developed a new kind of self-assembling battery material that quickly breaks apart when submerged in a simple organic liquid. In a new paper published in Nature Chemistry, the researchers showed the material can work as the electrolyte in a functioning, solid-state battery cell and then revert back to its original molecular components in minutes.A dram good idea – turning whisky waste into sustainable packagingA distillery is partnering with a research chemist to use mycelium, the root structure of fungi, and distillery by-products like spent grain to create durable, lightweight packaging. The material created is impact-resistant, fire-retardant, and fully compostable, offering an eco-friendly alternative to plastic. Over the next 10 months the project team will focus on proof of concept, testing the material and the design.Illinois researchers pair nanocatalysts, food waste to reduce carbon emissions in aviationFor researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign partnered with the local Kraft plant to make sustainable aviation fuel using salad dressing waste. Their findings, published in Science Advances, present a low-cost, scalable and reusable catalyst to produce an alternative to traditional jet fuel, demonstrating the first production of SAF from food waste-derived biocrude using non-noble metal carbide catalysts.Your question also highlights the need for integrating green chemistry, systems thinking, and an understanding of the product life cycle into the science curriculum from the beginning. I think it needs to be taught to young students as the way things should work rather than introduced in high school or college classes as a new concept. ...