Professor Dr. Jill Trewhella

Biography

Jill Trewhella is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney and an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. She holds a BSc and MSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sydney. Her research career commenced with postdoctoral studies at Yale and a prestigious appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she became one of fewer than 2% of the research faculty to earn the title of Laboratory Fellow. Trewhella has led significant multidisciplinary research, with over 300 researchers collaborating on projects including the Human Genome Project and studies related to HIV/AIDS. In 2004, she returned to Australia, was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, and was later appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Sydney. Her work emphasizes structural biology and biophysical approaches to understanding molecular communication, particularly related to heart muscle proteins. Trewhella's contributions have been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the prestigious Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship in Sweden.

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