Tamara Davis

Tamara Davis is a highly decorated professor of astrophysics at the University of Queensland. She leads the Australian Dark Energy Survey and is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). She is an avid communicator of science and occasional guest host of astrophysics documentaries, including the episode “Black Hole Hunters” which won the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award. Amongst her many accolades she received an Order of Australia for "significant service to astrophysical science, to education, and to young astronomers”. When not doing physics, she loves sport and has captained Australia in Ultimate frisbee.