Kylie Catchpole is Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University.  She has research interests in solar cells, energy systems, energy resilience and  the broader energy transition.  She has been awarded several fellowships including a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council and she was awarded the inaugural John Booker Medal for Engineering Science from the Australian Academy of Science.   She has been a plenary speaker at the World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion and the Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference.  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.