Deanne Fisher

Chief Investigator

Swinburne University of Technology

Biography

I'm an Associate Professor in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. I received my PhD from the University of Texas in 2010. My PhD advisor was John Kormendy. My postdoc mentors were Alberto Bolatto and Karl Glazebrook. I have been a CARMA Research Fellow, Swinburne Director’s Research Fellow and an Australian Future Fellow. I also served as the Deputy Director for the Centre for Astrophysics at Swinburne. I enjoy studying galaxies with extremely high star formation rates. I use these galaxies to test theories of star formation and study the conditions in galaxies that are very common in galaxies 10 billion years ago, when most stars in the Universe formed. I am the lead investigator for the DYNAMO and the DUVET observational programs.