Rate My Professor Joanne Dawson

Prior to her current roles, Dawson was an ARC DECRA Fellow at Macquarie University, a Bolton Fellow at CSIRO, and an ARC Super Science Fellow at the University of Tasmania, joining Macquarie in 2014. She currently serves as Research Training Director for the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Deputy Director of the Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre. She has supervised ten MRes and three PhD students to completion and is primary supervisor for five PhD students. In teaching, she delivers astrophysics units across levels, including introductory astronomy and the Faculty of Science and Engineering capstone unit FOSE3000. Dawson received the Vice-Chancellor’s Educational Leader Award as part of a team in 2022. Her research productivity encompasses 77 journal articles, five conference proceeding contributions, two book chapters, and additional outputs, achieving an h-index of 23 and 2,164 citations. Notable publications include "Tracing gas kinematics and interactions between H II regions and molecular clouds using VLA observations of recombination lines and hydroxyl" (2026, The Astrophysical Journal); "Detection of X-ray emission from a bright long-period radio transient" (2025, Nature); "Exploring the Galactic plasma with pulsars in the SKA Era" (2025, The Open Journal of Astrophysics); "Faint absorption of the ground state hyperfine-splitting transitions of hydroxyl at 18 cm in the Galactic disk" (2025, Astronomy and Astrophysics); and "First search for pulsed CH maser emission stimulated by a pulsar" (2025, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics). She has contributed to multiple ARC-funded projects, including "The formation of stars and planets" (2012).