Natasha Hurley-Walker

Natasha is a senior lecturer and ARC Future Fellow at the Curtin University node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research. She received her PhD in radio astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and has led several large-area radio sky surveys with the Murchison Widefield Array, exploring a wide range of science topics including supernova remnants, galaxy clusters, radio galaxy life cycles, and transient astronomy. She has won several awards, being named a WA Tall Poppies Scientist of the Year (2017), ABC Top 5 Scientist (2018), and Superstar of STEM (2019-2021).