Sally Brooker | |
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 Brooker in 2017 | |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Known for | Chemistry of transition metals and macrocycles |
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| Fields | Inorganic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
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Sally Anne Brooker MNZM is a New Zealand inorganic chemist. She has been a full professor at the University of Otago since 2006. [1] [2] [3]
Brooker was educated at Hawarden Area School in North Canterbury from 1970 to 1982, [4] and was dux of the school in her final year there. [5] She went on to study chemistry at the University of Canterbury, first graduating Bachelor of Science with first-class honours, and then completing a PhD titled Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands under the supervision of Vickie McKee in 1989. [4] [6]
After a period of post-doctoral research with George Sheldrick at the University of Göttingen, Brooker returned to New Zealand to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Otago in 1991. [4] [7] She rose to become a full professor in 2006. [7]
Brooker's research is in the fields of transition-metal and macrocyclic chemistry. [2] Her work has included the development of molecular switches and molecular magnets, with potential application in nanodevices. [8]
In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Brooker was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science. [9] [10] Later that year, she won the Hector Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand. [8] [11] [12] Also in 2017, Brooker was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand. [13]
Brooker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. [8] She is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. [4] In October 2019, Brooker was appointed one of seven inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chairs, or poutoko taiea, at Otago University. [14] She was awarded the University's Distinguished Research Medal in 2015. [15]
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