Anna Carolina Barbosa

At UNODC’s Laboratory and Scientific Services, I coordinated the logistics of five international training programmes and supported 16 capacity-building activities for participants from more than 20 countries. I worked with trainers, experts and partner institutions on registrations, travel, visa support, DSA processing and programme documentation.

I co-delivered Crime Scene Awareness training in Nepal and drug identification training for international participants, and prepared course materials including an infrared spectroscopy module. I also identified a bank error affecting participants’ DSA payments for a training in Togo and escalated it to UN Headquarters for resolution.

Alongside coordination, I worked with GC-MS and HPLC and prepared and quality-controlled 720 international proficiency-testing sample sets. I contributed to seven standard operating and operational procedures and to the preparation and technical review of UNODC scientific publications.

My MSc in Physical Chemistry and university teaching experience help me understand how scientists and faculty work. I also taught laboratory courses at UFJF and published a first-author article in New Journal of Chemistry.