Professor Nadim Darwish obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2011 under the supervision of Professors Justin Gooding and Michael Paddon-Row. He subsequently received a Marie Curie Fellowship to work with Professor Ismael Díez-Pérez at the University of Barcelona. In 2016, he joined Curtin University as an ARC DECRA Fellow and was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2024. He was awarded the the 2017 Western Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science and the 2020 Bond Medal from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He has also been a finalist multiple times in the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. Professor Darwish has published more than 120 articles in nanotechnology and electrochemistry, with a particular emphasis on single-molecule electronics.