Biography
Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is a leading expert in air quality and its impact on human health
and the environment, with a particular focus on the science of airborne particulate matter.
She is Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia,
and Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, a World Health Organization (WHO)
Collaborating Centre for research and training in air quality and health. She also serves as Centre Director
for the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE) hosted at QUT.
Professor Morawska holds additional positions as Vice-Chancellor Fellow at the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE),
University of Surrey, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI),
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
A physicist by training, she received her doctorate from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
She has authored over 1,100 journal papers, book chapters, and refereed conference papers. At the executive level,
she has contributed to numerous national and international professional bodies and currently acts as an advisor to the WHO.
She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science,
and a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Professor Morawska has received numerous awards, including inclusion in the 2021 TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people
and the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award, recognised “for her excellent research in air pollution
and its impact on human health and the environment, with a focus on atmospheric particulate matter, and for translating
fundamental science into real-world policy and practice to provide clean air for all.
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