[2] She is the founder of the Breaking Good project which encourages high school and undergraduate students to take part in research that can benefit human health.

[4] Motion received her MChem from the University of Leeds in 2007 where she worked with Philip Kocienski on the synthesis of an N-acetylcolchinol-combretastatin hybrid.

She moved to the University of Cambridge where she obtained her PhD in 2012 while working with Matthew J. Gaunt on strategies for asymmetric arylation.

[5] In 2012, Motion moved to the University of Sydney in Australia to work with Matthew H. Todd on the Open Source Malaria project as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

[13] This received significant media attention and was featured in The Guardian[12] and Time magazine,[14] and on ABC News (Australia),[13] the BBC,[15] and CNN.