About me

Siobhán completed her BSc International (Hons) in Chemistry and French at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She then continued her studies at UWA, completing a PhD in carbohydrate chemistry under A/Prof. Keith Stubbs. After her PhD, she headed to Frankfurt. Germany, and joined the Herbicides and Safeners research department at Bayer CropScience as a postdoctoral researcher before returning to Australia to take up a position in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). There she worked as an Education-Focussed academic and obtained her Master of Education (Higher Education with Excellence).

In 2024, she moved to Murdoch University to return to a teaching and research position as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, and Physics.

She has dual research foci on chemistry and STEM education in the tertiary sector and small molecule synthesis.

Organisational Affiliations

School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics, Murdoch University

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales

Education

Chemistry
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Australia (Australia, Perth) - UWA
Higher Education
Masters of Education, University of New South Wales