Women in Chemistry

Jenny Bennett was born in the UK in 1968, and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Ph.D. (synthesis and biological activities of analogues of compounds with anti-cancer properties). Since 1995 she has worked as Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Production Editor, and Deputy Managing Editor of Australian Journal of Chemistry – an International Journal for Chemical Science and Environmental Chemistry. She was heavily involved in launching the CSIRO suite of journals in electronic form in 1997. Since 2008 she has been Publisher of the chemical sciences journals within CSIRO PUBLISHING. She is grateful to have a job which allows her to interact with so many remarkable scientists.