Andrew P Montgomery

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, working under the supervision of Prof. Michael Kassiou. I completed my PhD studies at the University of Wollongong (UOW), working under the supervision of A/Prof. Danielle Skropeta and Dr Haibo Yu on a multi-faceted project with the aim to develop novel anti-metastatic compounds. My focus is on synthetic organic and computational chemistry including nucleoside and phosphonate chemistry, as well as MD simulations and free energy calculations. I began my Bachelor degree in medicinal chemistry in 2011 at UOW, received Dean’s Merit awards from 2012–2014 and graduated in 2014 with first class honours. My PhD was funded through an Australian Government Scholarship and has also attracted a number of travel grant awards. I have worked as senior laboratory demonstrator, mentor and peer study leader for undergraduate and junior PhD students.