Adrienne Hardham FAA is a professor within the division of Plant Sciences of the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University.

She completed her PhD thesis entitled "Microtubules and morphogenesis in Azolla pinnata roots" in 1978 at the ANU, for which she received the Crawford Medal.

In 1980, Adrienne was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II fellowship[2] in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne.

Adrienne serves on the editorial boards of Protoplasma and Peer J. Adrienne received the Peter Goldacre Award from the Australian Society of Plant Scientists in 1988 and the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 1989 for work in biology or medicine by a person under 37.

[4] In 2002, Adrienne was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in plant cell biology.