Professor Stephen Lincoln is a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds BSc(Hons) and DSc degrees from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in nanoscience, energy and the environment about which he has published over 300 peer reviewed research articles. He collaborates in this research with universities in China and the United States.

Professor Lincoln was awarded the H. G. Smith medal, the senior research award of the Royal Australian Institute in 2002. He has also been twice awarded the Ollé Prize for literature by the Royal Australian Institute for two books, the most recent of which “Challenged Earth: An Overview of Humanity’s Stewardship of Earth” (Imperial College Press 2006) was also the subject of an UNESCO award. He regularly writes on scientific and environmental issues for newspapers and appears on radio talkback programmes and in public fora concerning the same issues.