Dr Amanda Barnard

Dr Amanda Barnard is Future Generation Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.  Amanda received her Ph.D. (Physics) in 2003 from RMIT University, on the topic of nanocarbon phase stability. After 2 years as a Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (USA) she moved to the United Kingdom, where she held the senior research position of Violette & Samuel Glasstone Fellow at the University of Oxford and an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellowship at The Queen's College. By combining thermodynamic theory and ab initio computer simulations, her research focuses on relating the size, structure and shape of nanomaterials to reactivity and stability for the study of environmental impacts and risk assessment. Amanda is a world renown leader in theoretical and computational nanoscience, and a winner of the 2008 L'Oreal "For Women in Science" award for her work modelling nanoparticles in the environment.