Dr Lidia Morawska is a Professor at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. She received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Poland in 1982 for research on radon and its progeny. She took up her position at QUT in 1991, and prior to that she spent four years in Canada working first at the McMaster University in Hamilton as a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and later at the University of Toronto.

Dr Morawska is a Director and a founder of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (former name: Environmental Aerosol Laboratory), which operates within QUT. 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 fine and ultrafine particles. She lectures in general, environmental and radiation physics at graduate and undergraduate levels.

Dr Morawska is an author of over hundred fifty journal papers, book chapters and conference papers, supervisor of a number PhD and MSc projects and a recipient of the 1996 Queensland University of Technology Award for Outstanding Academic Contribution and 2001 Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Science Distinguished Fellow in Research Award. She is also a member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences (nominated in 1998).

Among other appointments, Dr Morawska has been acting as an advisor to the World Health Organisation and as a member of editorial boards of a number of international journals. She is the immediate past President of the International society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Her other past positions with professional bodies have included: President of the Queensland Branch and Secretary of the Federal Executive of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand.