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Lidia Morawska
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Alma materJagiellonian University
Scientific career
InstitutionsMcMaster University
University of Toronto
Queensland University of Technology
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Lidia Morawska FAA is a Polish-born Australian aerosol physicist, most recently researching the transmission of COVID-19. She is director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health and a Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology.

Academic career

Morawska holds an MSc (1976) and PhD (1982) from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Following graduation she moved to Canada where she worked as a post-doctoral fellow first at McMaster University and then at the University of Toronto. She migrated to Queensland, Australia to take up an appointment as associate professor at Queensland University of Technology. She was promoted to full professor and became director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT in 2003.[1]

Morawska is a consultant to the World Health Organization,[2] trustee of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and member of both the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand and the American Association for Aerosol Research.[1] She is associate editor of Science of the Total Environment journal[3] and an international committee member of the Aerosol Science Researching Center at the National Sun Yat-sen University.[4]

In May 2020 Morawska was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.[5]

COVID-19 research

Since 2020 Morawska has been collaborating with researchers in China and worldwide on how COVID-19 is transmitted,[6] including in hospitals,[7] on public transport[8] and through singing.[9]

Selected works

  • Rebecca E Stockwell; Emma Ballard; P O'Rourke; Luke D Knibbs; Lidia Morawska; S C Bell (4 July 2019). "Indoor hospital air and the impact of ventilation on bioaerosols: a systematic review". Journal of Hospital Infection. 103 (2): 175–184. doi:10.1016/J.JHIN.2019.06.016. ISSN 0195-6701. PMID 31279762. Wikidata Q91676655.
  • Lidia Morawska; Julian W Tang; William Bahnfleth; et al. (27 May 2020). "How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?". Environment International. 142: 105832. doi:10.1016/J.ENVINT.2020.105832. ISSN 0160-4120. PMC 7250761. PMID 32521345. Wikidata Q96293836.
  • Heidi Salonen; Tunga Salthammer; Lidia Morawska (13 July 2020). "Human exposure to indoor air contaminants in indoor sports environments". Indoor Air. doi:10.1111/INA.12718. ISSN 0905-6947. PMID 32657456. Wikidata Q97542863.

References

  1. ^ a b "Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska". Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Professor Lidia Morawska". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Lidia Morawski". Elsevier. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Center Staffs". National Sun Yat-sen University. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Australia's top scientists elected as Fellows of the Academy". Australian Academy of Science. 25 May 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  6. ^ Lidia Morawska; Junji Cao (10 April 2020). "Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality". Environment International. 139: 105730. doi:10.1016/J.ENVINT.2020.105730. ISSN 0160-4120. PMC 7151430. PMID 32294574. Wikidata Q91958993.
  7. ^ Lian Zhou; Maosheng Yao; Xiang Zhang; et al. (15 October 2020). "Breath-, air- and surface-borne SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals". Journal of Aerosol Science: 105693. doi:10.1016/J.JAEROSCI.2020.105693. ISSN 0021-8502. PMC 7557302. PMID 33078030. Wikidata Q100737401.
  8. ^ Teresa Moreno; Rosa María Pintó; Albert Bosch; et al. (9 December 2020). "Tracing surface and airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA inside public buses and subway trains". Environment International. 147: 106326. doi:10.1016/J.ENVINT.2020.106326. ISSN 0160-4120. PMC 7723781. PMID 33340987. Wikidata Q104504417.
  9. ^ Shelly Miller; William W. Nazaroff; Jose L. Jimenez; et al. (26 September 2020). "Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by inhalation of respiratory aerosol in the Skagit Valley Chorale superspreading event". Indoor Air. 31 (2): 314–323. doi:10.1111/INA.12751. ISSN 0905-6947. PMC 7537089. PMID 32979298. Wikidata Q99730713.
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