Professor Colin Jackson has held research positions at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and was a visiting research fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (Grenoble, France), before his appointment at the Research School of Chemistry. He is an ARC Future Fellow and has been awarded an ARC DECRA, a Human Frontiers in Science Young Investigator Award, an AIPS Tall Poppy Award, ACT Tall Poppy of the Year, the RACI Rennie Memorial Medal and the ACT Scientist of the Year Award.