Lidia Morawska

Lidia Morawska is Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, which is a Collaborating Centre of the WHO.

Lidia also holds positions of Vice-Chancellor Fellow, Global Centre for Clean Air Research, University of Surrey, UK, of Adjunct Professor, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, and is a co-director of the Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management She is a physicist, received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and 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.  An author of almost one thousand journal papers, book chapters and refereed conference papers, Lidia has been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies, is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and a recipient of numerous scientific awards.