Subashani Maniam

Dr Subashani Maniam's research focuses on two main aspects; developing organic materials for energy storage and synthesis of bioactive compounds with potential therapeutically properties.

Subashani obtained her PhD from the Australian National University (2008) in supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof Christopher Easton.

After a joint postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (2008-2011) under the mentorship of Prof Andrew Holmes and Dr Gavin Collis working on dye-sensitised solar cells using supercritical carbon dioxide, she worked with Prof Langford exploring naphthalene diimides- and porphyrin-based photosystems.

In 2016, she was awarded a Victorian Fellowship by the Victoria State Government which gave her the opportunity to explore small molecules and polymers as charge storage devices at Waseda University, Japan.

Accomplishments:
- Review, "Aqueous redox flow batteries: How ‘green’ are the redox active materials?" was selected as 2021 Green Chemistry Hot Articles
- Top 10% most downloaded articles in Chem- Eur J for 2018-2019 (Harnessing Brightness in Naphthalene Diimides & Recent Advances in the Core‐Annulation of Naphthalene Diimides)
- First prize for Academic Poster prize in Women Researchers' Network Symposium 2019
- Victoria Fellowship 2016
- Victoria Fellowship acknowledged by the Premier (https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/victorias-top-scientists-honoured/)
- Invitation by the Governor of Victoria for Women in Science Think Tank 2017