Honorary General Secretary

Associate Professor Martina Stenzel

Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

With a DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) in her pocket, she started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

In 2002, she took on a position as a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and worked within the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) on complex polymer architectures via RAFT polymerization and honeycomb structured porous films.

In 2009, she obtained an ARC Future Fellowship and was just recently promoted to full Professor. Her research interest is focused on the development of nanopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment. She combines latest advancement in polymer synthesis with nature’s building blocks such as sugars or proteins to develop smart polymer nanoparticles for the delivery of a range of anti-cancer drugs.

Martina Stenzel has published more than 170 peer reviewed papers and 7 book chapters. She currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Polymer, Macromolecules and Progress in Polymer Science and is editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry.

Martina received several awards including the 2011 Australian Academy of Science Le Fèvre Memorial Prize.

Martina is an RACI member since 2000. She was the secretary of the Polymer division and served as the chair of the division from 2008-2011.