Baohua Jia is a Chinese-Australian nanotechnologist and photonics researcher specializing in the absorption and emission of light by nanomaterials and the development of nanomaterials for plasmonic solar cells, solar thermal collectors, and radiative cooling.
Her research has also concerned ultra-thin graphene-based flat lenses,[1] graphene oxide supercapacitor batteries,[2] laser nanoprinters,[3] and "atomaterials", a word coined by Jia for the atomic-level building blocks of nanomaterials.
[4] She is a professor and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University, where she directs the Center for Atomaterials Sciences and Technology.
She remained at Swinburne, becoming a full professor there and founding director of the Centre for Translational Atomaterials.
[5] Jia was a 2013 recipient of the Young Tall Poppy Award of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science.