David J. Hill received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976 followed by postdoctoral research at The University of California, Berkeley 1978-1980. Since 2022, he holds the position of Professor of Electrical Power and Energy Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Professor Emeritus at The University of Sydney.

He previously held positions at the University of Sydney including the Chair of Electrical Engineering and Head of the then School of Electrical and Information Engineering during 1994-2000 and again the Chair in 2010-2013, along with being Foundation Director of the Centre for Future Energy Networks. During 2013-2020, he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. During 2005-2010, he was an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. During 2001-2004, he was Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. During 1991-1993 he held the Pacific Power Chair at The University of Newcastle, where he was also Assistant Dean of Engineering. He has also held substantial visiting type positions at the Universities of Melbourne, and New South Wales Sydney in Australia and Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden and Technical University of Munich in Europe. He has held several honorary positions in Australia, Hong Kong and Mainland China. He is also a consultant in the area of power and energy issues in Australia and internationally.

His research activities have been in energy and power systems, control, networks and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks with the aim to bring science to accelerate the clean energy transition.

Professor Hill is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Asian Control Association, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize.