Lídia Morawska

Lidia Morawska PHD, FAA, FRSB, AAAS IHM, FTSE is a Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She is the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) at QUT, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Air Quality and Health; the Centre Director for the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE) hosted at QUT; a Vice-Chancellor Fellow of the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom; and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI) at the Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter. She is an author of >1,200 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. Lidia has been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national/international professional bodies, is an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Biology, and is acting as an advisor to the WHO. She is the recipient of numerous scientific awards including the Prime Minister Prize for Science 2025.