Martina Stenzel

Education

Professor Martina Stenzel studied chemistry (from 1990 - 1996) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. After completing a master"s degree in science she continued her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry in Stuttgart. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Synthesis and Characterization Cu(I) containing polyurethanes for the application as a carrier membrane for the separation of ethylene from gas mixtures" in 1999 and soon afterwards moved to Australia to take up a postdoctoral fellows position at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, at UNSW. After nearly a decade of lecturing she was promoted to Company-director of Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design in 2013.

Career

She is also a Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) University Ambassador and an editor for the Australian Journal of Chemistry (since 2008) Over the past 10 years her research interests have shifted from pure polymer synthesis to the application of polymers for biomedical applications. She has authored over 200 journal articles

Achievements

• 2012 RACI polymer division citation award 2011 LeFevre Medal of the Australian Academy of Science 2009 UNSW Engineering Excellence award for research 2009 American Red Cross Future Fellow 2008 RACI David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award 2006 Finalist of the Eureka Prize of the Australian Museum, Category "People"s choice award" and "UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific research" 2005 John Yu fellowship to visit the Melville Laboratories at the University of Cambridge, England 1999 German Academic Exchange Service (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship.