Assoc. Prof Alice Motion | Deputy Director of Sydney Nano (External Engagement and Academic Development)
University of Sydney

Alice is a Westpac Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney where she leads the Science Communication, Outreach, Participation and Education (SCOPE) Research Group. Finding ways to connect people with science and to make research more accessible is the overarching theme of Alice’s interdisciplinary research.


Alice is the founder of the Breaking Good project – a citizen science project that aims to empower high school and undergraduate students to be active researchers in projects that will improve human health. In 2016, students working as part of the Breaking Good pilot project recreated the price-hiked medicine Daraprim for just a few dollars, sparking an international conversation about access to medicine and demonstrating the impact that students can have when they are involved in real research.


Alice is the Deputy Director of Sydney Nano (External Engagement and Academic Development), the Co-Chair of the Charles Perkins Centre Citizen Science Node and host representative of the Australian Citizen Science Association. She is a celebrated science communicator, winning the Eureka Prize for Public Communication of Science in 2020, Young Tall Poppy (2020) and ABC Top 5 Under 40 in 2015. Alice is the co-host of the ABC Science podcast, Dear Science, and has been the host of FBi Radio’s weekly science segment Up and Atom since June 2015.