Professor Ken Baldwin is the Director of the Energy Change Institute at ANU, and Deputy Director of the Research School of Physics and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society (OSA) and the Australian Institute of Physics. He is a recipient of the 2007 Australian Optical Society Medal, and the 2010 Barry Inglis Medal of the National Measurement Institute. Professor Baldwin is an inaugural ANU Public Policy Fellow, and winner of the 2004 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science, for initiating and championing “Science meets Parliament”.