Amanda Ellis Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

Amanda Ellis

Prof. Amanda Ellis is the Head of the School of Chemical and Biomedical at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a world-leading expert in carbon nanomaterials, polymer science, energy storage and harvesting. She graduated with a Ph.D (Applied Chemistry) from the University of Technology, Sydney in 2003. She has undertaken postdocs in the US (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New Mexico State University) and NZ (as a Foundation of Research Science and Technology Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Callaghan Innovations). In 2006 she commenced at Flinders University, South Australia where she became a Full Professor (2013), an ARC Future Fellow (2014) and acting Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Science and Engineering (2016). In May 2017 she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne and was the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department (2019-2022). She has secured over $38 M in funding from the ARC and non-ARC sources as well as publishing over 200 peer-reviewed publications (>11,100 citations, H index = 51) and holds 6 patents. She has been a recipient of the Royal Australia Chemical Institute (RACI) Margaret Sheil Women in Leadership award (2019) and an Australia Research Council College of Experts panel member (2017-2020), a RACI Board Member (2015-2018) and is currently the President of the RACI.