Professor Vicki Chen is currently a Honorary Professor at School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland. She was the Provost and Senior Vice-President of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Professor Chen graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She has over twenty-five years research experience in the areas of membrane separation, gas separation, biocatalytic systems, nanomaterials, and water treatment. In the area of carbon capture, she was involved in membrane projects with the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) and Coal Innovation NSW. Prior to joining UTS in 2022, Professor Chen was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, and IT at the University of Queensland (UQ). Previously, she was a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the UNSW Sydney before taking on the substantive Head of School position (2014 – 2018) and was the Director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at UNSW (2006 – 2014). Professor Chen is currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Membrane Science and editorial advisory board of Macromolecules and was formerly on the editorial board for the Desalination Journal. Professor Chen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) and a founding board member of the Membrane Society of Australasia.