27 Facts About Lisa Harvey-Smith

Lisa Harvey-Smith is a British-Australian astrophysicist, Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at the University of NSW.

Lisa Harvey-Smith attended Finchingfield Primary School, where her mother was the headteacher.

Lisa Harvey-Smith obtained a Master of Physics degree with Honours, majoring in astronomy and astrophysics, from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2002.

Lisa Harvey-Smith was awarded her PhD in Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory from the University of Manchester in 2005 supervised by R J Cohen.

Lisa Harvey-Smith was selected in 2018 for the role and re-appointed in September 2020.

From 2012 to 2015 Lisa Harvey-Smith was Chair of the Women in Astronomy Chapter of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Lisa 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.

Lisa Harvey-Smith is a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at the University of New South Wales and in 2018 was appointed as an adjunct professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Maths at Western Sydney University.

From 2009 until 2011, Lisa Harvey-Smith was Chair of the Australia Telescope National Facility's Telescope Time Assignment Committee.

Lisa 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, and a study of large-scale magnetic fields in galactic regions of ionised gas surrounding massive star clusters.

Lisa Harvey-Smith worked as a support scientist at the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry 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.

Lisa Harvey-Smith is a member of Chief Executive Women, the National Science and Technology Centre Advisory Council, the Australian Space Agency Advisory Board, the International Astronomical Union, and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Lisa Harvey-Smith has published several books on astronomy for adults and children, including:.

Lisa Harvey-Smith is a chapter author in Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2016, published by Pan MacMillan.

Lisa Harvey-Smith wrote the foreword for The Best Australian Science Writing published in 2019 and is a chapter author in Australia's Nobel Laureates Volume III, published in 2021 by One Mandate Group.

Lisa Harvey-Smith is a frequent guest on ABC television news to provide her expertise on astronomy, space and STEM topics.

In 2016 and 2017 Lisa 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.

Lisa Harvey-Smith was a guest scientist on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Todd Sampson's Life on the Line.

Lisa Harvey-Smith hosted the Australian tour of "Eugene Cernan-The Last Man on the Moon" in 2016.

In 2015, Lisa Harvey-Smith performed several live events on-stage, including her self-penned "Stargayzing" show at Sydney Observatory as part of Sydney Mardi Gras, the opening of "An Evening with Neil DeGrasse Tyson" at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, and as a guest in Buzz Aldrin: Mission to Mars: a two night event held in Sydney and Melbourne.

In 2012, Lisa Harvey-Smith gave the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture, which is broadcast regularly by TVOntario as part of the Big Ideas TV series.

Lisa 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.

Lisa Harvey-Smith has 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.

Lisa Harvey-Smith has written numerous articles including for The Conversation, the Financial Review and ABC Science.

On 28 October 2015, Lisa Harvey-Smith received the CSIRO Chairman's Medal for her contributions to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Telescope.

On 31 August 2016, Lisa Harvey-Smith was awarded the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research, after being a finalist in 2015 Eureka Prize.

Lisa Harvey-Smith was named in The Sydney Morning Herald's "Good Weekend's Who Mattered 2019: Science" list.