Hawker (born 11 January 1964) is an Australian-born chemist.
His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology, microelectronics and surface science.
Hawker holds more than 45 U.S.
patents and has co-authored over 300 papers in the areas of nanotechnology, materials science and chemistry.
He was listed as one of the Top 100 most cited chemists worldwide over the decade 1992–2002.
and again in 2000-2010.
Hawker is currently the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and holds a number of other laboratory directorships at the University of California, Santa Barbara.