About

Dr Karen Lee-Waddell is Director of the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC), where she leads the Australian effort to build computing and data intensive research capabilities to support astronomers using current and next generation radio telescopes.

Karen is also the Project Scientist for WALLABY, the all-sky survey that aims to detect and image the gas distribution in hundreds of thousands of galaxies using CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope. an SKA-precursor telescope at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.