Heidi Vollmer-Snarr, Ph.D.
Director, International Green Chemistry Consortium
B.S. (Chemistry) – University of Utah, USA – 1997
B.A. (German) – University of Utah, USA – 1997
Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) – University of Oxford, UK – 2001
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Bio-organic chemistry) – Columbia University, USA – 2001–2002
Dr. Heidi Vollmer‑Snarr serves as Director of the International Green Chemistry Consortium (IGCC), a global collaborative dedicated to developing and accelerating innovative research in sustainable chemistry. In this role, she convenes targeted workshops to shape research strategies, builds integrated, transdisciplinary research programs, and coordinates worldwide communication and implementation. Through the integration of synthesis, catalysis, spectroscopy, materials science, physics, and data‑driven approaches, the IGCC advances scalable solutions for safer, higher‑performing, lower‑energy chemical processes for the design and development of chemicals and materials with real‑world impact.
Before joining Yale, Dr. Vollmer‑Snarr served as Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories and Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where she developed and taught research courses on the synthesis of molecular glues for therapeutics and enzyme‑cleavable esters for molecular electronics. She received a Faculty Curricular Innovation Award for the development of an engaged scholarship program to take her students to Capitol Hill to advocate for science policy related to their research. She served on Harvard’s Standing Committee on Public Service and was elected to the Faculty Council and Committee on Undergraduate Education.
Her earlier appointments included Lecturer in Chemistry at Stanford University, where she developed sustainable biodiesel experiments using renewable feedstocks, and Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University, where her research focused on biomimetic syntheses of pyridinium bis‑retinoids relevant to age‑related macular degeneration. She conducted her NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in bio‑organic chemistry at Columbia University with Prof. Koji Nakanishi and completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford with Prof. Sir Jack Baldwin, synthesizing biologically active marine alkaloids.
She is the co-author of Organic Chemistry with Biological Topics and serves on the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Environment and Sustainability. She has also served on the National Institutes of Health study sections Small Business Sensory Technologies and Visual Systems.
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