Tara Louise Pukala is an Australian scientist who is a professor of biological chemistry at the University of Adelaide,[1][2] board member of Nature Scientific Reports, Superstar of STEM, 2023–2024, and Director of the Adelaide Proteomics Centre.
[3][4] Pukala was awarded a PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2006 for her thesis "Structural and mechanistic studies of bioactive peptides".
[5] She then moved to the University of Cambridge in a post-doctoral role, researching native mass spectrometry.
[14][15] Pukala's research involves the intersection of chemistry and biology, working with molecular proteins, including DNA and other biomolecules.
This research helps with understanding medical and health sciences, and the mechanistic biological and chemical processes.