Michelle Coote
- Professor
- Flinders University
Professor Michelle Coote is a Matthew Flinders Professor in Chemistry at Flinders University, having recently moved from the Australian National University (ANU) where she was a Georgina Sweet ARC Laureate Fellow. She is graduate of the University of NSW, where she completed a BSc(Hons) in industrial chemistry in 1995 and a PhD in polymer chemistry in 2000. Following postdoctoral fellowships in polymer physics at the University of Durham, UK, and computational chemistry, at the ANU, she established her own research group at the ANU in 2004 where she served in various roles until moving to Flinders in 2022. She is an Executive Editor of JACS, an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and has received many awards, most recently the 2021 RACI Leighton Memorial Medal. Her group uses theory and experiment to design new synthetic methods and catalysts, with an emphasis on non-traditional methods of bond activation using electricity and light.
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