Originally from the snowy land of Canada, Kiara followed the sun--and her passion for biomaterials--to Australia to join the Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials at ANU, where she completed her PhD developing drug delivery systems within hydrogel materials used to help repair/regenerate damaged brain tissue. With Honours degrees in Nanotechnology Engineering and Chemistry (from the University of Waterloo in Canada), as well as industry experience doing R&D at a nanotechnology start-up, geochemistry research for mine waste management at a government laboratory, and working with the management team in a large nuclear power plant, she has diverse experience to draw on when solving and teaching complex engineering problems.

PhD (Eng - Biomedical), Hons (Eng - Nanotechnology), Hons (Sci - Chemistry)

Biomaterials and drug delivery systems for tissue engineering/regenreative medicine, with a focus on brain tissue