Margaret Harding

Margaret Harding is an Australian chemist and educator who is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at The Australian National University (ANU). She is an expert in medicinal and biomolecular chemistry, with special research interests in the areas of antifreeze proteins and ligand-DNA interactions. Education Born 14 December 1960 in Sydney, Harding completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney in 1982. She received a PhD in 1986 under M. J. Crossley and S. Sternhell, titled "A Study of Tautomerism and Atropisomerism in 5,10,15,20-Tetra-Arylporphyrins", and a DSc in 2002, also from the University of Sydney. On completing her PhD, Harding held postdoctoral positions at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Academic positions In 1990, Harding returned to the University of Sydney, where she taught as a professor of chemistry until 2005. In 2005, Harding was appointed the first Dean of Graduate Research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), a position she held until 2009. In 2008, she was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at UNSW.