Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr, BSc, BA, MSc, PhD, CD
The University of Western Australia (M468), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Dr Karen Lee-Waddell is the Director of the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC, https://aussrc.org), which is a partnership between CSIRO, Curtin University, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and the University of Western Australia. In this role, she is leading the Australian effort to build computing and data intensive research capabilities to support astronomers using current and next generation radio telescopes.
Karen is also currently the Project Scientist for WALLABY (https://wallaby-survey.org), the all-sky survey that aims to detect and image the gas distribution in hundreds of thousands of galaxies using CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope.
Karen completed all of her education in Ontario, Canada -- including a PhD at Queen’s University, MSc at the Royal Military College of Canada, BA(hons) at McMaster University, and a BSc(hons) also at McMaster.
In 2015, she moved to Sydney, Australia as a Postdoctoral Fellow to pursue a dream of exploring the Universe with the technology made possible by CSIRO and the Australia Telescope National Facility. Karen’s research focuses on galaxy interactions and physical processes governing these systems, in order to better understand how the Universe is evolving and hopefully solve some of the greatest mysteries of the still unknown.
Karen is also passionate about science education and public outreach. She often volunteers in schools (as a part of the STEM Professionals in Schools program) and contributes to events aimed at sharing science and research with society, hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists.
During her first undergraduate degree, Karen joined the Royal Canadian Navy as a Logistics Officer. For 13 years, she was an active Reservist serving with units in Canada -- primarily HMCS STAR and HMCS CATARAQUI -- and in Australia (as a foreign exchange officer) working with the 8th Combat Service Support Battalion. In 2019, Karen was awarded with a Canadian Forces' Decoration medal for long service and good conduct.
Astrophysics & Astronomy, PhD, A multi-wavelength investigation of the gas-rich dwarf galaxy populations of three interacting groups: NGC 3166/9, NGC 871/6/7 and NGC 4725/47, Queen's University Kingston
Sept 2011 → Aug 2015
Award Date: 1 Nov 2015
Space Sciences, MSc, Exploring the neutral hydrogen distribution and the gas-rich dwarf galaxy population in the interacting galaxy group NGC 3166/9, Royal Military College of Canada
Sept 2009 → Aug 2011
Award Date: 17 Nov 2011
Classics, BA (hons), McMaster University
Sept 2007 → Apr 2009
Award Date: 8 Jun 2009
Physics, BSc (hons), McMaster University
Sept 2003 → Apr 2007
Award Date: 5 Jun 2007
WALLABY Project Scientist
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Koribalski, B. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Elagali, A. (Creator), For, B.-Q. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), Madrid Gamboa, J. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Reynolds, T. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Serra, P. (Creator), Shao, L. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Wang, J. (Creator), Whiting, M. (Creator), Wong, I. (Creator), Allison, J. R. (Creator), Bhandari, S. (Creator), Collier, J. (Creator), Heald, G. (Creator), Marvil, J. (Creator) & Ord, S. (Creator), CSIRO Publishing, 15 Nov 2018
DOI: 10.25919/5becef4d41dab, https://doi.org/10.25919%2F5becef4d41dab and one more link, https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:36998v1 (show fewer)
Dataset
Reynolds, T. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Elagali, A. (Creator), For, B.-Q. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), Koribalski, B. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Madrid, J. P. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Whiting, M. F. (Creator), Wong, I. (Creator), Davies, L. (Creator), Driver, S. (Creator), Robotham, A. (Creator), Allison, J. R. (Creator), Bekiaris, G. (Creator), Collier, J. D. (Creator) & Heald, G. H. (Creator), SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Jan 2019
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2930, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/abstract and 5 more links, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/NED, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/MAST, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/ESO, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/SIMBAD, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2019MNRAS.482.3591R/IRSA (show fewer)
Dataset
Koribalski, B. (Creator), Kilborn, V. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Wong, O. I. (Creator), Whiting, M. (Creator), Serra, P. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Huynh, M. (Creator), Hotan, A. (Creator), Catinella, B. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), For, B.-Q. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Elagali, A. E. M. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), Murugeshan, C. (Creator), Reynolds, T. (Creator) & Bekiaris, G. (Creator), CSIRO Publishing, 2020
DOI: 10.25919/tp3e-yq41, https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro%3A43096v1/PD1651850299847
Dataset
Koribalski, B. (Creator), Kilborn, V. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Wong, O. I. (Creator), Whiting, M. (Creator), Serra, P. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Huynh, M. (Creator), Hotan, A. (Creator), Catinella, B. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), For, B.-Q. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Elagali, A. E. M. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), Murugeshan, C. (Creator), Reynolds, T. (Creator) & Bekiaris, G. (Creator), CSIRO Publishing, 2020
DOI: 10.25919/q0f1-bt41, https://data.csiro.au/collections/collection/CIcsiro:43096v1/DItrue/PD1612966567679
Dataset
Koribalski, B. (Creator), Kilborn, V. (Creator), Staveley-Smith, L. (Creator), Wong, O. I. (Creator), Whiting, M. (Creator), Serra, P. (Creator), Westmeier, T. (Creator), Popping, A. (Creator), Huynh, M. (Creator), Hotan, A. (Creator), Catinella, B. (Creator), Kleiner, D. (Creator), For, B.-Q. (Creator), Rhee, J. (Creator), Lee-Waddell, K. (Creator), Elagali, A. E. M. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), Murugeshan, C. (Creator), Reynolds, T. (Creator) & Bekiaris, G. (Creator), CSIRO Publishing, 18 Feb 2020
DOI: 10.25919/a649-h571, https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:43097v1?tab=data&progressDoiTimestamp=1675174057589
Dataset
Lee-Waddell, K. (Chief Investigator), Quinn, P. (Investigator 02), Tingay, S. (Investigator 03), Reynolds, J. (Investigator 04) & Stickells, M. (Investigator 05)
Department of Industry, Science and Resources (Australia)
29/11/22 → 31/03/31
Project: Research
Meyer, M. (Investigator 01), Wicenec, A. (Investigator 02), Dodson, R. (Investigator 03), Driver, S. (Investigator 04), Lee-Waddell, K. (Investigator 05), Kitaeff, S. (Investigator 06), Mitchell, D. (Investigator 07), Wagg, J. (Investigator 08), Klasky, S. (Investigator 09) & Wang, R. (Investigator 10)
15/09/21 → 14/09/23
Project: Research