As the Monash-Warwick Alliance Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, Professor Challis leads a highly productive, interdisciplinary research group focused on natural product discovery and biosynthesis, mechanistic enzymology and biosynthetic engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology, has >13,000 career citations and has cultivated many successful research collaborations in both academia and industry. CI Challis will manage the Centre’s diverse collaborative networks as the International Connections lead.