Dr. Annie Colebatch

Biography

Annie completed her undergraduate degree and PhD at the Australian National University. She was awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship to work at the University of Bath with Prof. Michael Hill, followed by postdoctoral appointments at the University of Oxford with Prof. Andrew Weller and the University of Cambridge with Prof. Dominic Wright. Annie returned to the Australian National University in 2019 as a Rita Cornforth Fellow and was awarded the ARC DECRA from 2020 to 2023. She also received the J. G. Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 and the Rita Cornforth Lectureship from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Her research interests span inorganic chemistry, synthesis, catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, and electrochemistry, focusing on how multiple chemical entities cooperate to achieve specific chemical outcomes and designing systems capable of utilizing cooperative effects. Annie's team is developing bimetallic complexes and investigating the interplay between metals in terms of chemical catalytic reactivity and their physical and electrochemical properties. A key focus of her work is ligand design to support systems with multiple metal centers that can bind and interact effectively in order to develop catalysts that address sustainability challenges.

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