inhabiting Mars in 2015. Since 2016 she has been a speaker at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and has spoken at The Writer's Bloc, the New South Wales Writers' Centre and the Emerging Writers' Festival. Divisekera was included in the Government of Australia Chief Scientist "Five Scientist Pledge". She has spoken on Australian Broadcasting Corporation about what can be done to support more women into science. She gave a keynote talk at the March for Science in Melbourne. In May 2018 Upulie took on Elon Musk in a Twitter feud after he referred to nanotechnology as "bs". She is a contributor to the literary magazine The Lifted Brow. References External links Real Scientists Australian women chemists Australian chemical engineers Women molecular biologists University of Melbourne alumni University of Melbourne women Science communicators Australian Internet celebrities Women chemical engineers Australian people of Sri Lankan descent Australian National University alumni 21st-century Australian engineers 21st-century chemists 21st-century women engineers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)