Rate My Professor Karen Lee Waddell

Curtin University

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5.08/20/2025

A role model for academic excellence.

4.05/21/2025

Always kind, respectful, and approachable.

5.03/31/2025

A true expert who inspires confidence.

4.02/27/2025

A true inspiration to all learners.

5.02/10/2025

Challenges students to reach their potential.

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Dr. Karen Lee-Waddell is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, associated with the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy. She currently serves as the inaugural Director of the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC), an equal partnership between CSIRO, Curtin University, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, and the University of Western Australia. In this role, she leads efforts to develop computing and data-intensive research capabilities for astronomers using current radio telescopes like ASKAP and future facilities such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Previously, she joined the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia in 2017 as a research astronomer and has been the Project Scientist for the WALLABY survey, a major neutral hydrogen (HI) imaging project with ASKAP. She also contributes to the Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transient (CRAFT) survey. Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Lee-Waddell served 13 years as a Logistics Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, including reservist duties in Canada and Australia, earning the Canadian Forces Decoration medal in 2019 for long service and good conduct. Her postdoctoral fellowship was at the University of Sydney in 2015.