Justin Gooding

ARC Professorial Fellow and Co-director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia

Scientia Professor Justin Gooding graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) from Melbourne University before spending two years working for ICI Research on explosives. He then returned to University obtaining a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and received post-doctoral training at the Institute of Biotechnology in Cambridge University. He returned to Australia in 1997 as a Vice-Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW. He was promoted to full professor in 2006. He was one of the recipients of a 2004 NSW Young Tall Poppy award, a 2005 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the 2007 RACI Lloyd Smythe Medal for Analytical Chemistry, the 2009 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, the RACI 2011 H.G. Smith Medal for contributions to chemistry, the 2012 RACI R.H. Stokes Medal for electrochemical research and the 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry Australasian Lecturer. He is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow and a co-director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine. He leads a research team of 30 people interested in surface modification and nanotechnology for biosensors, biomaterials, electron transfer and medical applications.