the progress being made towards the fabrication of optimised, biocompatible, synthetic analogues. In a more recent study, she characterized biomimetic and natural hydrophobic surfaces using in situ atomic force microscopy, highlighted that the air-water interface is heterogeneous in its structure, and confirmed the presence of short–range interfacial ordering. Awards and honors 1994 - AIST Fellowship, Japan, Foreign Researcher Invitation 1997 - UNESCO Biotechnology Fellowship, University of Maryland 1998 - Governor of Primorye Award 1999 - Morrison Rogosa Award, American Society for Microbiology 2001-2002 - Russian Academy of Sciences Award “Prominent Doctor of Sciences” 2008 - JSPS Fellowship, Japan 2011 - Placed in the top of 5% of cited authors for journals in Chemistry, Thomson Reuters 2012-2013 - Ministry of Education and Science Short-Term Fellowship, Russian Federation 2015 - Distinguished Nanoscience Research Leader Award 2015, Publishing Division of Cognizure 2016 - “Women of Swinburne”, Swinburne University of Technology 2016 - Visiting professor, Cambridge University, UK; Visiting professor, Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, France 2016 - Nano-Micro Letters (NML) Researcher Award 2017 - Swinburne 25 book 2017 - Australian Museum Eureka for Scientific Research 2019 - Distinguished Professor Medal, RMIT University 2020 - SAGE Athena SWAN at RMIT: Women in STEMM gallery 2021 - ASEC Best Contribution Award, 2nd Int. Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences 2021 - Best Researcher Award, International Research Awards on Infectious Diseases 2021 - Honorary Advisor, the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) Bibliography Books Marine proteobacteria of the family Alteromonadaceae (2001) Nanoscale Structure and Properties of Microbial Cell Surfaces (2007) ISBN 9781600212420 New Functional Biomaterials for Medicine and Healthcare (2014) ISBN 9781782422662 Antibacterial surfaces (2015) ISBN 9783319185934 Superhydrophobic surfaces (2015) ISBN 9780128011096 Selected articles Vu, B., Chen, M., Crawford, R. J., & Ivanova, E. P. (2009). Bacterial extracellular polysaccharides involved in biofilm formation. Molecules, 14(7), 2535–2554. Ivanova, E. P., Hasan, J., Webb, H. K., Truong, V. K., Watson, G. S., Watson, J. A., ... & Crawford, R. J. (2012). Natural bactericidal surfaces: mechanical rupture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells by cicada wings. Small, 8(16), 2489–2494. Webb, H. K., Arnott, J., Crawford, R. J., & Ivanova, E. P. (2012). Plastic degradation and its environmental implications with special reference to poly (ethylene terephthalate). Polymers, 5(1), 1–18. Hasan, J., Crawford, R. J., & Ivanova, E. P. (2013). Antibacterial surfaces: the quest for a new generation of biomaterials. Trends in biotechnology, 31(5), 295–304. Ivanova, E. P., Hasan, J., Webb, H. K., Gervinskas,