Adele Williamson
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Adele Williamson is a New Zealand biochemist who studies DNA repair systems in bacteria that inhabit extreme environments.[1] Her research has applications in both biotechnology and medicine.[1] She has travelled widely, including to Norway and Antarctica, to conduct her research and uses a variety of biochemical and bioinformatic methods to study the collected enzymes.[2] She is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato.[1]
From 2000 to 2004, Williamson studied at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where she earned her Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree.[3] She went on to undertake doctoral research at the Australian National University from 2004 to 2008,[4] when she graduated with her PhD.[4] She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship from January 2009 to March 2010 at Umeå Plant Science Centre in Sweden.[2][5]
Career
After her postdoctoral work at Umeå, Williamson began working as a research scientist at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2010, and was promoted to project leader in 2015.[6][3] In 2019 she returned to New Zealand to work at the University of Waikato. She spent her first two years there working as a research fellow and principal investigator,[1] before being appointed a senior lecturer in the Biomedical, and Molecular and Cellular Biology Departments.[1]
While conducting research at various universities, Williamson has become a member of various societies. Most recently, she joined the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ).[2] In 2022, Williamson joined the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists where she works as a mentor to aspiring scientists.[2][7] In 2021, she was admitted into the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, which consists of established scientists in New Zealand whose research targets serious human diseases.[2][8][9] Williamson has been a member of the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology since 2020.[2]
