I completed my undergraduate and PhD studies at UWA, followed by post-doctoral studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. I am now a principal investigator of a research laboratory in the School of Molecular Sciences at UWA. I have held various prestigious research fellowships and research grants from a wide variety of funding bodies over my career and I am currently a Professor of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, and Chemical Glycobiology at UWA, where I am also the Board of Studies Chair for Maths and Physical Sciences. My research interests are in the areas of developing chemical tools to study enzymes relevant to human disease, bacterial pathogenesis and biodiscovery for various applications.