Lisa Harvey-Smith

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Lisa Harvey-Smith
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Born1979 (age 4344)
Citizenship British/Australian
Education Braintree College
Alma mater Newcastle University (MPhys)
The University of Manchester (PhD)
Known for Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)
When Galaxies Collide [1]
Scientific career
Fields Astronomy
Astrophysics [2]
Institutions University of New South Wales
CSIRO
University of Sydney
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Thesis Studies of OH and methanol masers in regions of massive star formation
Doctoral advisor R. J. Cohen [3]
Website lisaharveysmith.com

Lisa Harvey-Smith (born 1979) is a British-Australian astrophysicist, Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at the University of NSW. Her research interests include the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism, supernova remnants, the interstellar medium, massive star formation and astrophysical masers. [3] For almost a decade Harvey-Smith was a research scientist at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), including several years as the Project Scientist for the Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and later Project Scientist for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Telescope. [4]

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Early life

Harvey-Smith attended Finchingfield Primary School, where her mother was the headteacher. [5] She was home educated between 1991 and 1996. [6]

She later attended Braintree College. Harvey-Smith obtained a Master of Physics degree with Honours, majoring in astronomy and astrophysics, from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2002. She was awarded her PhD in Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory from the University of Manchester in 2005 supervised by R. J. Cohen. [3]

Professional career

Gender equity

As the Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Harvey-Smith spearheads the Government's effort to remove barriers to girls’ and women’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields on a national scale. She was selected in 2018 for the role [7] and re-appointed in September 2020. [8]

From 2012 to 2015 Harvey-Smith was Chair of the Women in Astronomy Chapter of the Astronomical Society of Australia. [9] During that time she presided over the launch of a new national gender equity scheme for astronomers in Australia called The Pleiades Awards. [10]

Astrophysics

Harvey-Smith is an astrophysicist with more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers on topics including the birth and death of stars, cosmic magnetic fields and supermassive black holes. [11]

She is a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) [12] and in 2018 was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Maths at Western Sydney University. [13]

In August 2012 Harvey-Smith was appointed Project Scientist at CSIRO for the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP) telescope. [14] Prior to this, whilst the SKA Project Scientist at CSIRO, she played a pivotal role in Australia and New Zealand’s bid to host the SKA. [15] In May 2012 it was announced that the SKA would be constructed in both Australia and Southern Africa. [16] In her time at CSIRO she also led the development of the ASKAP Early Science Program, [17] which began in 2015. [4] [18]

Following this role, Harvey-Smith was appointed Research Group Leader at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facilities Science Program. [19] From 2009 until 2011, Harvey-Smith was Chair of the Australia Telescope National Facility's Telescope Time Assignment Committee. [20]

Harvey-Smith was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Sydney from 2007 to 2009, where she published work on the role of magnetic fields in the shaping of supernova remnant, [21] and a study of large-scale magnetic fields in galactic regions of ionised gas surrounding massive star clusters. [22]

Harvey-Smith worked as a support scientist at the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in Europe in the Netherlands, where she carried out real-time testing of the European VLBI Network telescope array, was responsible for science data quality control and took part in some of the first global real-time electronic VLBI experiments.[ citation needed ] During this time she worked on polarimetric studies of galactic masers and their relation to magnetic fields in regions of massive star-formation. [23] [24] [25]

Professional, board and committee memberships

Harvey-Smith is a member of Chief Executive Women, [26] the National Science and Technology Centre (Questacon) Advisory Council, [27] the Australian Space Agency Advisory Board, [28] the International Astronomical Union, and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Books

Harvey-Smith has published six books on astronomy for adults and children:

Harvey-Smith is a chapter author in Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2016, published by Pan MacMillan. She also wrote the foreword for The Best Australian Science Writing published in 2019 [42] and is a chapter author in Australia’s Nobel Laureates Volume III, published in 2021 by One Mandate Group.  

Media

Television and Stage

Harvey-Smith is a frequent guest on ABC television news to provide her expertise on astronomy, space and STEM topics. [43] [44] [45]

In 2016 and 2017 Harvey-Smith appeared as co-host, alongside Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro, in the three-part ABC Television version of the BBC programme Stargazing Live. [46] In 2016 she was a presenter on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation associated program Stargazing Live: Back to Earth. She was a guest scientist on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Todd Sampson's Life on the Line.  

In 2018, Harvey-Smith toured Australia with her live astronomy stage show “When Galaxies Collide”. [47] She hosted the Australian tour of "Eugene Cernan-The Last Man on the Moon" in 2016. [48] In 2015, Harvey-Smith performed several live events on-stage, including her self-penned "Stargayzing" [49] show at Sydney Observatory as part of Sydney Mardi Gras, [50] the opening of "An Evening with Neil DeGrasse Tyson" [51] at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, and as a guest in Buzz Aldrin: Mission to Mars: a two night event held in Sydney and Melbourne. [52] In 2012, Lisa gave the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture, which is broadcast regularly by TVOntario as part of the Big Ideas TV series. In 2004 she was a member of the Jodrell Bank Observatory team on the BBC television quiz show University Challenge, narrowly defeating the British Library. [53]

Radio and print

Harvey-Smith has appeared in dozens of radio and podcast programs over the years in Australia and overseas as an expert on astronomy, space and inclusion in the STEM sector. She has also featured in magazines and printed media including Women's Weekly, Women's Health , The Age , The Australian , The Sydney Morning Herald , The Sun-Herald , The Sunday Telegraph, The Australian Financial Review and National Geographic. She has written numerous articles including for The Conversation, [54] the Financial Review [55] and ABC Science. [56]

Awards and honours

On 28 October 2015, Harvey-Smith received the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal for her contributions to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Telescope. [57] On 31 August 2016, Harvey-Smith was awarded the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research, [58] after being a finalist in 2015 Eureka Prize. [59]

In November 2012, The Sydney Morning Herald included Harvey-Smith in its "Top One Hundred: Sydney's Most Influential People". [60]

She was named in the Sydney Morning Herald’s “Good Weekend’s Who Mattered 2019: Science” list. [61]

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