Martina Stenzel 12th Australian Peptide Conference 2017

Martina Stenzel

Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. With a DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) in her pocket, she started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. In 2002, she took on a position as a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and is now an ARC Future Fellow and Professor. Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional polymers with complex architectures such as glycopolymers and other polymers for biomedical applications, especially polymers with in-build metal complexes for the delivery of metal-based anti-cancer drugs. Martina Stenzel published more than 180 peer reviewed papers mainly on RAFT polymerization and 5 book chapters. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). She is an editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry and also serves on several editorial advisory boards. She received a range of awards including the 2011 Le Fèvre Memorial Prize.