Emeritus Professor Ken Baldwin

As inaugural Director of the ANU Energy Change Institute and founding Director of the ANU Grand Challenge: Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific, Professor Baldwin’s research focuses on energy policy and the transition to a decarbonised economy.

His work examines the integration of renewable energy across all sectors of the economy, including Australia’s emerging renewable energy export industries. Key research interests include energy transition policy, renewable energy systems, hydrogen certification, and the development of energy export opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Professor Baldwin is Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a non-executive director of the Australian Hydrogen Research Network, and Chair of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Steering Committee for the Australian Energy Transition Research Plan.

His physics research has focused on laser technologies, precision measurement and atom optics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), Optica, and the Australian Institute of Physics.

Professor Baldwin is an inaugural ANU Public Policy Fellow and was recognised with the 2021 ANU Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to the University. In 2004, he received the Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science for his role in initiating and championing Science Meets Parliament.