Lidia Morawska

Lidia Morawska is a Polish physicist and Distinguished Professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of the Queensland University of Technology. She is also director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, co-director of the Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management, an adjunct professor at the Jinan University in China, and a vice-chancellor fellow at the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Her work focuses on fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health, with a specific focus on atmospheric fine, ultrafine and nanoparticles.

In 2018, she received the Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research, as well as the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2017 David Sinclair Award. In 2020, she contributed to the area of airborne infection transmission of viruses, including COVID-19. In that same year she became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), and received the 2021 International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Special 2020 Award for an Extraordinary Academic Leadership. In 2021, she was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.