Dr Nicole J Rijs is an academic in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales Sydney who uses mass spectrometry and ion mobility to answer fundamental questions about chemical structure and reaction mechanisms.
After completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Dr Rijs was appointed as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the TU Berlin, Germany. She commenced her independent career in 2015 founding her group at...view more
Dr Nicole J Rijs is an academic in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales Sydney who uses mass spectrometry and ion mobility to answer fundamental questions about chemical structure and reaction mechanisms.
After completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Dr Rijs was appointed as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the TU Berlin, Germany. She commenced her independent career in 2015 founding her group at the KIT, Karlsruhe. In 2018, Dr Rijs relocated her research group from where it was based at the KIT in Germany, to UNSW Sydney, in order to take up a prestigious Scientia Fellowship. She was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship and an Australian Academy of Science J. G. Russel Award. She's been a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney since 2024.
My Qualifications
Bachelor of Science, degree with Honours, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 2003-2006; Doctor of Philosophy, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 2008-2012; Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, 2012-2015; Research Group Leader, Institute for Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2015-2017; Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow (2017); Australian Academy of Science J. G. Russel Award (2017); Scientia Fellow (2018), and Research Group Leader and Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, since 2018.
My Awards
My Research Activities
The Rijs utilises a range of cutting edge computational and instrumental techniques, such as ion-mobility mass spectrometry, to look at the structure and function of molecules in exquisite detail.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
I am available to supervise HDR students in all areas of fundamental mass spectrometry, ion mobility mass spectrometry, gas phase ion chemistry, mechanism, physical organic chemistry, supramolecular and metal mediated mechanisms, and fundamental chemical questions related to structural analysis. Please contact me directly to discuss your research interests.
Currently supervising
- "Predicting Molecular Structures and Interactions of Pesticides Using Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometry"
- "Deconstructing molecular self-assembly by advanced mass spectrometry."
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