Chiara Neto is a professor of physical chemistry and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and leads the NanoInterfaces Lab in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Prof Neto and her group focus on the physical chemistry of interfaces, a multi-disciplinary field spanning the traditional disciplines of chemistry, physics, materials science and surface engineering. Prof Neto has published over 90 peer reviewed scientific publications which have been cited over 4800 times, and three patents. She is founding Director and former President of the Australasian Colloids and Interface Society.