Associate ProfessorAngela Ziebell

Associate Professor in Chemistry and WIL Director for the School of Life and Environmental Science

I am passionate about quality career-linked STEM education. I use my program lead skills to run large education design and redevelopment projects using evidence-based approaches. After working in industry and national labs I retain my passion for the development of a clean economy and now use my program lead skills to bridge the gap between academia and the external employers with a special interest in circular, renewable and energy transition aspects of the workforce.

I specialise in redevelopment of curriculum or the building and introduction of new subjects. Having just moved to Deakin in 2021 I took over half of first year chemistry and went straight into a redesign making extensive resources to support our students. I recently became the Director of Work Integrated Learning too, an area which I am very passionate about supporting ensuring continued growth in the placements available to our students.

For 2016-18 I led a redevelopment program for Monash Chemistry's laboratory activities. "Transforming Laboratory Learning" brings Work Integrated Learning into 17 lab classes by working directly with industry to build context and inquiry into activities, better preparing students for the workplace.
Authentic assessments such as executive summaries and QC reports are now used for learning and assessment alongside more traditional formats.

My technical experience includes designing and optimising high through-put chemical and biochemical assays, biomass analysis, natural product isolation, and structure determination, as well as organic synthesis. I have successfully worked with a large range of professionals from programmers to accountants, chemical engineers to plant geneticists.