Awards & Recognitions
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Fetal and Neonatal Workshop ANZ, Australia, celebrating & recognising my career contributions
Plenary Invitation, Women in Science, Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Developing your Career and Life, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Centenary Celebration Conference
Growing the Next Generation, Australian Reproduction Update, Melbourne, Australia
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Forrest Fellowship, University of Western Australia, Australia
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Raine Visiting Professor Award, School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia
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The University of Melbourne, Australia, James Angus Award Outstanding Research Higher Degree Supervision
Australian Government, Office for Learning & Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia, The Excellence Award for Equity and Staff Development
Australian Government, Office for Learning & Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Plenary Invitation, Women in Science, Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Developing your Career and Life, National University of Singapore, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Centenary Celebration Conference. Conference was opened by Singapore Prime Minister in the centre.
Australian Government, Office for Learning & Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Plenary Invitation, Women in Science, Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Developing your Career and Life, National University of Singapore, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Centenary Celebration Conference.
Australian Government, Office for Learning & Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Plenary Invitation, Women in Science, Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Developing your Career and Life, National University of Singapore, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Centenary Celebration Conference.
The University of Melbourne, Australia, James Angus Award Outstanding Research Higher Degree Supervision
Raine Visiting Professor Award, School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia
Academic Career
Mary has an extraordinary legacy of service and senior executive leadership roles at University and Faculty levels at The University of Melbourne and in her research discipline. She was Professor of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne for 24 years and took voluntary redundancy in March 2021.
Mary has played a key role in research training and was appointed Associate Dean in the Melbourne School of Graduate Research in 2007 and was Deputy Dean 2009-14. She led the initiative for university-wide graduate research (Masters, PhD) supervisor training and registration.
As Coordinator Researcher Development, Melbourne Research (2013-15), she continued to play a major role in university-wide career development for graduate and early/mid-career researchers. She was appointed Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (2015-16) where she used her exceptional leadership, mentoring, staff development and research skills to further the faculty’s strategic research directions and partnerships.
Research Career
“You should begin with the conception of man and describe the form of the womb, and how the child lives in it, and to what stage it resides in it and in what way it is given life and food.”
— Leonardo da Vinci in writing on the human body
Mary is a research scientist and academic who is internationally recognised as an inspirational world leader in the fundamental underpinnings of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research to enhance the quality of life for mothers and their infants. The environment in early life and first 1,000 days has a major impact on a healthy start to life as well as lifelong (first 1,000 months or 83 years) and intergenerational health and disease risk.
Mary’s internationally recognised preclinical research and discoveries provided the foundation for the successful translation, in 2018, to national/international human clinical cohorts in Singapore (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Singapore PREconception Study of long-Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO)), Perth and Melbourne (Generation Victoria (GenV) (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)).”
Accomplished Research Fundraiser
National and International competitive grant funding >$12 million
National Grants >$9.4 million:
14 NH&MRC; ARC Linkage
other (8 Heart Foundation, 8 Diabetes Australia, 11 philanthropic)
International Grants >$2.9 million:
March of Dimes (USA; 2008);
Allen Foundation (USA; 2019);
National Medical Research Council (Singapore; 2019, 2023)
Respected and Widely Published Researcher
Sustainable excellence evidenced by accelerating series of highly cited publications in top journals, including Nature.
200 publications
51 in the last five years (2019 - 2023)
40% senior author
30% international collaborations
h-index=36.
Research outcomes have been impactful and have been featured on the cover of prestigious journals including Nature.
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8490-9099
Scopus:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003852810#
Award Winning Research Training and Mentoring
Award-winning research training educator having sustained excellence in staff and student mentoring and supervision (>300) across the career life course at many national and international institutions (×10). Foster and empower research quality, integrity, publications and national and international presentations.
Student Supervision:
×28 PhD (across 8 national and international institutions)
×7 Masters
×47 Honours
×38 Summar Scholars
×106 Undergrads
Staff Supervision:
×6 Research Fellows
×18 Research Assistants
×8 Technical Assistants/Officers
Developed and lead many career development and coaching programs for graduate and early/mid-career researchers (>71) across many institutions, national and international societies and disciplines.
