Professor Mal McLeod is a teacher and researcher within the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and since then has worked continuously at Universities around Australia.
Mal’s research interests include the development of new chemical and analytical methods to detect drugs in sport and this research is supported by funding agencies including the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
He led the chemistry undertaking the first festival pill testing trials held in the ACT in 2018 and 2019 and served as the chemistry lead for the CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service pilot. In 2022 Mal completed his Churchill Fellowship project to visit leading international drug checking services to rapidly improve the analytical chemistry capabilities in Australia.