ProfessorAnita Ho-Baillie

Professor Anita Ho-Baillie is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney, an Australian Research Council 2021 Future Fellow. Her research interests include integration of materials at nanoscale for clean solar energy generation. She is a highly cited researcher from 2019 to 2025. In 2025, she won the NSW Premier's Prizes for Science & Engineering for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics. In the same year, she won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Sustainability Research. She is also the Australian Space Awards Academic of the Year in 2025 and Scientist of the Year in 2024. In 2024, she won the Australian Academy of Science Nancy Millis Medal. In 2022, she won the Royal Society of NSW Warren Prize  for her pioneering work in the development of next generation solar cells. And in 2021, she was named the Top Australian Sustainable-Energy Researcher by The Australian Newspaper Annual-Research-Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.