Jackie Wilce is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University. She specialises in the study of molecular interactions using biophysical and structural tools to better understand the basis for their affinity, specificity and conformational consequences underlying mechanism of action. Her PhD was undertaken in Medicinal Chemistry in the Craik group, Victorian College of Pharmacy (now MIPS). She worked as an ARC Fellow at the University of Sydney and University of Western Australia before taking up an academic position at Monash University in 2007. She has published over 100 research articles, book chapters and reviews in the field of protein-peptide and protein-oligonucleotide interactions.