I am a Scientia Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. I received my Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Adelaide with a Doctoral Thesis Medal and Dean’s Commendation Letter. I spent the following two years at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) as a postdoc, returning to Australia in 2017 to a prestigious Early Career Fellowship at the University of Queensland. I have co-authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals in the field of nanomaterials, biomaterials, and drug delivery, and consequently have attracted more than 6760+ cites on Scholar with an H-index of 51 and 5575+ citations on Scopus and returns an H-index of 46. I have successfully secured over $5.9 million (~$3.9M as lead CI) in competitive research grants, including an NHMRC early career fellowship, ARC Discovery Project, and Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant, US. Dept of Defense grant. I serve as the President of the Australian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (AusCRS) and the Secretary for the Oral Delivery Focus Group of CRS.