PhD in Chemistry from University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, on use of ring-closing metathesis in peptidomimetics. Spent 3 years at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on NZ FRST fellowship working in the lab of Prof Dieter Seebach researching beta-peptides. In 2008, awarded ARC Linkage fellowship at University of Adelaide, Australia and in 2009 spent 1 year at Bio21, University of Melbourne with Prof Andrew Holmes. Since 2010 been at CSIRO, the Australian govt research labs, in Melbourne Australia. Interests include non-natural and fluorinated amino acids, peptide synthesis, medicinal chemistry, aspects of stem cell research, and peptide-based biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.