Plenary Speaker - Emily Hilder

Professor Emily Hilder is the Director of the University of South Australia’s Future Industries Institute (FII). The mission of FII is to creation of new industries through collaboration, to transform the industries of today by supporting them to embrace emerging technological disruptions to create the industries of tomorrow. She is also Deputy Director of the ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies (ASTech) and Deputy Director of the ARC Research Hub for Integrated Device for End-user Analysis at Low-levels (IDEAL). Emily is an analytical chemist and her research focuses on the design and application of new polymeric materials that can be used to improve analytical measurements including the application of these new technologies for separations, bio-analysis and disease diagnosis. Emily enjoys working with industry and end-users to realise the practical benefits of fundamental research with her research contributing to the development of new commercial products including chromatography columns and consumables and materials and products for microsampling and storage of blood and other fluids.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and has been recognized by a number of awards including the Doreen Clark Medal (RACI), Jubilee Medal (ChromSoc, UK), LCGC (North America) Emerging Leader in Chromatography and was included in the 2013 and 2015 Analytical Scientist Power List of the World’s 100 Most Influential Analytical Scientists, in 2014 as one of the ‘top 40 under 40’, 2016 as one of the 50 most influential women in the field and in 2017 as one of the top 10 leaders in analytical science. She has over 120 refereed publications and has secured over $22M in research funding since 2004. She is an Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer Nature).

Emily was born and raised in Tasmania and is a graduate of the University of Tasmania where she completed BSc(hons) in 1996 and her PhD in analytical chemistry in 2000. Following postdoctoral positions in the Institute of Analytical Chemistry at Johannes Kepler University (Austria) and the Materials Science Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (USA) she returned to Australia and the University of Tasmania in 2004 as part of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) where she held an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2004-2007 and ARC Future Fellowship from 2010-2014 and was Director of ASTech and Head of Chemistry from 2014-2015 before relocating to the University of South Australia in 2016.