Rachel Caruso completed her PhD in the School of Chemistry at The University of Melbourne. She moved to Germany and worked in Berlin at the Hahn Meitner Institute and then in Potsdam at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. She returned to The University of Melbourne where she held Australian Research Council funded research fellowships and a 50% secondment at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation. She moved to RMIT University in 2017 as Director of the Advanced Materials Enabling Capability Platform and now is a Distinguished Professor in Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science within the School of Science and Deputy Director of an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Green Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide.