Sally Brooker
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Sally Brooker | |
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.jpg) Brooker in 2025 | |
| 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]
Academic and research career
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]
