Meet our speaker - Lidia Morawska

Lidia Morawska

Lidia Morawska

Queensland University of Technology

Lidia Morawska

Queensland University of Technology

BIO

Professor Lidia Morawska has been a long-time collaborator and advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and has contributed to WHO recommendations related to air quality for over two decades. In 2021, she was among the 100 most influential people according to the Times magazine.

She used her interest in the impact of air quality on human health in an interdisciplinary research group formed in 2020 that elaborated on the importance of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus-containing particles and the emerging health risks. Professor Morawska chaired the group of 239 scientists from around the world. Based on the results of the work of this group, WHO updated its recommendations in connection with the fight against SARS-CoV-2.

Professor Lidia Morawska defended her PhD thesis on radon and its derivatives at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1982. Before she joined the staff of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane in 1991, in 1987-91 she conducted research at McMaster University in Canada. She also worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and at the University of Toronto.