Tamara Davis


Tamara Maree Davis is an Australian astrophysicist., she is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics, at the University of Queensland, where she has been employed since 2008.
She was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2018. The Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Nancy Millis Medal in 2015. She was Australian Institute of Physics Women in Science Lecturer in 2011. She received the Astronomical Society of Australia's Louise Webster Prize in 2009.
Davis has competed for Australia at an international level in Ultimate Frisbee.

Education

Davis completed her Ph.D in astrophysics at the University of New South Wales in 2004. She also has a BSc in physics and a BA in philosophy.