Public Lecture - Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

We are excited to announce that Professor Jennifer Martin will be presenting at IUCr 2023 in cooperation with our STEM exhibition Crystal-A-Con on Saturday 26 August from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm in the Plenary 2 room Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Southbank.

Professor Jennifer Martin AC FAA is recognised internationally for her pioneering research in protein crystallography, a science that seeks to understand how biological machines operate.

Professor Martin was the University of Wollongong Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) from 2019 to 2022. Prior to that, she enjoyed a 25-year research career at the University of Queensland and at Griffith University as Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery. Professor Martin has held four nationally competitive research fellowships including an inaugural ARC Laureate Fellowship. In 2018, Professor Martin was awarded the highest civilian honour in Australia, Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, “for eminent service to science, and to scientific research, particularly in the field of biochemistry and protein crystallography applied to drug-resistant bacteria, as a role model, and as an advocate for gender equality in science”. Professor Martin was President of the Asian Crystallographic Association from 2016 to 2019. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), chairs the IUCr Gender Equity and Diversity Committee, and chairs the Advisory Committee to the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Jenny was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2017 and was a member of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Steering Committee, which established the Athena SWAN pilot to address gender equity in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine across Australia.