Sarah Masters

Sarah Louise Masters (Hinchley) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in researching structural information about transient species.

Academic career
Masters completed a PhD titled Static and Dynamic Effects of Sterically Demanding Ligands at the University of Edinburgh. Masters then moved to the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2023. She has also been President of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. In 2019 she led events around the country to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's periodic table.

Honours and awards
Masters is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.