Merit and Demerit | Jenny Martin | TEDxUQ

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Appointment on the basis of merit is a universal catchcry - but do we really appoint on merit? Professor Jennifer Martin suggests that in academia we actually appoint people on the basis of a narrow set of metrics, as a proxy for merit, without considering demerit.

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Professor Jenny Martin is one of Australia’s foremost structural biologists having made pioneering discoveries in protein structure and structure-based inhibitor design. She was the Gold Medallist of her year at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in Melbourne. Her DPhil was awarded from the University of Oxford where she was supported by a prestigious 1851 Science Research Scholarship. Her postdoctoral research was undertaken at Rockefeller University in New York. In 1993, she returned to Australia as an ARC QEII Fellow and established the first protein crystallography lab in Queensland. She has held many prestigious research Fellowships including an inaugural ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship and her research has been recognised through prizes and awards. In 2015 she was a finalist in the NAB Women's Agenda Leadership Awards Mentor of the Year. She currently uses protein structure methods to develop new drugs to overcome antibiotic resistance.