Dr Nicole Smith is a senior lecturer in the School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia (UWA). She heads the Unusual Nucleic Acids Research group. Her research focuses on the structure, formation and recognition of non-canonical nucleic acid structures, such as G-quadruplexes and i-Motifs, and their roles in vital biological processes. Prior to taking up her current position, she was the recipient of an NHMRC Fellowship (2017-2021) and the Neurotrauma Research Program Fellowship (2017-2019) which she relinquished to take up her NHMRC fellowship. She obtained her BSc at the University of Sydney and her PhD at the University of Western Australia (June 2010). She then took up an ANR postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (Bordeaux, France) followed by a postdoctoral position at the Australian National University (Canberra) before returning back to UWA.
