Rachel is the Professor of Bioinorganic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Sydney, Australia. She obtained her PhD at the University of Sydney and next undertook two periods of postdoctoral research training at the University of New South Wales and at the University of Arizona. She returned to Australia to the University of Sydney and in 2007 established a research group in inorganic chemical biology founded on her cross-discipline research. Rachel and her team focus on the inorganic chemical biology of iron(III) chelating microbial siderophores, with the goal to develop methods to expand the structural diversity and functional utility of these metal-binding agents for environmental and biomedical applications. Rachel has received two research medals for her work and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) in 2016.