Lisa Kewley

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Biography

Centre Director Lisa Kewley is an established world leader in the theoretical modelling and observation of star-forming and active galaxies. Her recent research combines stellar evolution and photoionisation models with cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to predict how the ionising radiation in galaxies changes over time. Her work has shown that there have been dramatic changes in ionising radiation in galaxies over the past 6 billion years. Lisa's expertise covers both optical and radio astronomy, observation and theory, as well as understanding local and distant galaxies. She will bring this expertise into her Theme Leader role that connects MWA Epoch of Reionisation project with simulations of the ionising radiation seen in the first galaxies and examines how the ionising radiation evolved over cosmic time to the point where it is observed in nearby galaxies with SAMI.