Her PhD thesis in the area of Object-Relational Databases has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis 2001 by the Computer Science Association Australia. In 2003, she was awarded the Dean’s Award for excellence in teaching. Her research areas cover a wide range of advanced databases topics including XML Databases and Data Warehousing, Object-Relational Databases, Distributed and Parallel Databases, and Semantic Web and Ontology. She is currently the Head of Data Engineering and Knowledge Management Laboratory at La Trobe University. To date, she has successfully supervised to completion 8 PhDs and more than 10 Masters/Honours level students. She publishes extensively every year, including five books (two authored and three edited), and more than 80 research papers in international journals and proceedings.