Rate My Professor Michelle Coote

Professor Coote has garnered numerous accolades, including the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2017), ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research (2019), RACI Leighton Memorial Medal (2021), RACI Physical Division Medal (2020), Le Fèvre Memorial Prize (Australian Academy of Science, 2010), Pople Medal of the Asia-Pacific Association for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2015), HG Smith Medal (2016), and election as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2014). She holds the position of Executive Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the first Australian in this role, and delivered the Paul Schleyer Lectureship (2018). Her impactful publications feature "Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction" (Nature, 2016), "Switching Radical Stability By pH-Induced Orbital Conversion" (Nature Chemistry, 2013), "First Principles Modelling of Free-Radical Polymerization Kinetics" (Int. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2013), and "Origin and scope of long-range stabilizing interactions and associated SOMO-HOMO conversion in distonic radical anions" (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013).