2023-present Associate Professor/Academic Coordinator (Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours)), UWA

2019-2022 Senior Lecturer/Coordinator of First Year Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, UWA

2012-2019 Lecturer/Coordinator of First Year Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, UWA

2009-2011: Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Prof Julian Gale and Prof Kate Wright (Curtin University, Australia)

2007-2008: Postdoctoral Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof Jill Banfield and Dr Glenn Waychunas and Dr Benjamin Gilbert (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL, USA)

2003-2006: PhD in Computational Chemistry under the supervision of Prof Steve Parker (University of Bath, UK)

1999-2003: MChem with a year in industry (University of Kent, UK)

I am the Academic Coordinator for the Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) program. My primary role includes coordinating the residential program, developing and coordinating individual student curricula, providing comprenhensive pastoral support and coordinating research placementsfor BPhil students. 

I am also an Associate Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences. I teach in the chemistry major at all levels in physical chemistry. I supervise PhD and Honours students in the field of computational materials chemistry and chemistry education research.

2019 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant

2015 and 2016 Centre of Education Futures Scholarships
Catalyst Grant-Chemistry Discipline Network

CHEM1001-Properties and Energetics

CHEM1003-Introductory Chemistry

CHEM2004-Chemistry of Reactions

GCRL1000-Global Challenges, Research and Leadership

My research interests are in Chemistry Education Research and Computational Chemistry.

In Chemistry Education Research I am interesting in the research exploring students self-efficacy in the chemistry laboratory. I design and develop new technologies and research the impact on student learning in the cognitive and affective domain. I am interested in the role of AI in chemistry education. My research interests in this area includes studying the acceptance of AI as instructional videos and providing feedback to students.

In Computational Materials Chemistry I am interested in astrochemistry. My group are actively discovering new molecular co-crystals that could be found on the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn. Titan has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and methane. The cold temperatures and higher atmospheric pressures on Titan means that some chemicals that are a gas on Earth would be a liquid or solid on Titan. Therefore, the minerology on Titan would be vastly different to Earth and we are actively trying to discover more about the surface composition of Titan. I am also interested in simulating the mechanisms of dust formation from oxygen-rich and carbon-rich stars. Dust formation can provide clues on how larger objects in space form.