Emily J. Parker is a New Zealand bio-organic chemist and academic. She is Professor of Chemical Biology at Victoria University of Wellington.
Academic career
Parker has a BSc from the University of Canterbury. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1996 and stayed on there as a research fellow. Parker then returned to New Zealand to take up a position at Massey University. In 2006 she transferred to the University of Canterbury and remained there until June 2017 when she was appointed as full professor at the Ferrier Research Institute within the Victoria University of Wellington.
Honours and recognition
Parker received the NZ Institute of Chemistry's Easterfield Award in 2005 and the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for Research Excellence in 2008. In 2010 she received the Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching from Ako Aotearoa.
In 2018 Parker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women academics New Zealand chemists University of Canterbury alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academic staff of Massey University Academic staff of the University of Canterbury Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
