Tony Haymet

Professor Tony Haymet is Australia’s Chief Scientist and an emeritus distinguished professor of oceanography. He has held senior research and leadership positions in Australia and the United States, including as Vice-Chancellor, Director and Distinguished Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. His research spans oceanography, chemical physics, hydrophobicity and Antarctic science. He has also founded an ocean robotics company and established philanthropic ocean research programmes.