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Early life and education

Fox is the daughter of two scientists.¹ She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and her doctoral research at the Australian National University.² Her thesis explored the manufacture and characterisation of high temperature carbon fibre composites.

Research and career

In the early 2000s, Fox joined Deakin University, where she founded the Carbon Nexus facility.³ This drove research in carbon fibre and composites, and increased industry collaborations.⁴ She worked at Swinburne University of Technology as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Enterprise. In 2016 she was made founding Director of the Swinburne's Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, the "Factory of the Future,".⁵⁶ She was made Chair of the Victorian Division of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering from 2019 to 2022.

Fox worked as chief scientist at CSIRO.⁷ She was the fourth woman to hold the position, and it was the first time women held three of Australia's top government jobs.⁸ In 2022 she was made President of the German – Australia Chamber of Industry and Commerce.⁹ The focus of the Chamber was to drive bilateral agreements to accelerate progress toward net zero.¹⁰ In 2023 she was appointed the Expert Adviser on the International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety for Australia.

In 2024 she joined the University of New South Wales as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise.¹¹

Awards and honours

• 2017 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)¹²
• Fellow of Engineers Australia¹³
• Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)¹⁴
• Appointed to the National Quantum Advisory Committee¹⁵
• 2020 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research¹⁶
• 2022 Victorian Finalist for Australian of the Year¹⁷
• Chair of the National Robotics Strategy Advisory Committee¹⁸
• Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2025 Australia Day Honours¹⁹

Selected publications

• Firas Awaja; Michael Gilbert; Georgina Kelly; Bronwyn Fox; Paul J. Pigram (September 2009). "Adhesion of polymers". Progress in Polymer Science. 34 (9): 948–968. doi:10.1016/J.PROGPOLYMSCI.2009.04.007. ISSN 0079-6700. Wikidata Q57528232.
• Minoo Naebe; Jing Wang; Abbas Amini; Hamid Khayyam; Nishar Hameed; Lu Hua Li; Ying Chen; Bronwyn Fox (14 March 2014). "Mechanical property and structure of covalent functionalised graphene/epoxy nanocomposites". Scientific Reports. 4: 4375. Bibcode:2014NatSR...4E4375N. doi:10.1038/SREP04375. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 3953726. PMID 24625497. Wikidata Q38270643.
• Mickey G. Huson; Jeffrey S. Church; Abdullah A. Kafi; Andrea L. Woodhead; Jiyi Khoo; M.S.R.N. Kiran; Jodie E. Bradby; Bronwyn L. Fox (March 2014). "Heterogeneity of carbon fibre". Carbon. 68: 240–249. doi:10.1016/J.CARBON.2013.10.084. ISSN 0008-6223. Wikidata Q56489585.

References

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