Distinctions/Honours
2019, Jim Morrison Medal of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Mass Spectrometry
2017, Hill Tinsley Medal of the New Zealand Association of Scientists
2017, Hood Fellowship (outgoing to Cambridge, UK)
2016, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize
2016, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Early Career Award
2015, Fellow of the New Zealand Centre at Beijing University
2015 – present, Elected member to the Council of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)
2013, Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria
2011, Carl-Duisberg-Memorial Prize (German Chemical Society)
2010, Visiting Professor, Chimie ParisTech, France
2010, Innovative Teaching Award Bank Austria
2009, Best paper award in Applied Organometallic Chemistry
2006, Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund
2005, Award of the “Theodor-Körner-Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaft und Kunst”

Areas of expertise
Medicinal Chemistry, Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Development of Anticancer Compounds, Bioanalytical Chemistry (Mass Spectrometry, Capillary Electrophoresis, Hyphenated Systems)