Tamara Davis

Biography

Prof. Tamara Davis is a cosmologist at University of Queensland. She won the 2011 Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lectureship, the 2011 Queensland Tall Poppy Award, the 2009 Australian L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship and the Astronomical Society of Australia’s Early Career Research Award. Tamara plays a leading role in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, which has mapped ~220,000 galaxies across half of the observable universe, testing theories of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.