Physical Organic Chemistry

Uta Wille graduated with a Ph.D. in science in the field of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1993. This was followed by a habilitation in organic chemistry at the same institution, which was completed in 1999. In 1997–98, she undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Bernd Giese at the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 1999, she was appointed as Privatdozent at the University of Kiel and was invited in 2000 as a Visiting Fellow to the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. In January 2003, Uta moved permanently to the University of Melbourne, where she has been Associate Professor and Reader since 2011. Her research program is in the area of physical organic chemistry, where she studies the chemistry of reactive intermediates by merging radicals of atmospheric importance with organic and bio-organic chemistry.