Professor Lister Staveley-Smith

Professor Lister Staveley-Smith completed his PhD in Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester in 1985. From 1989, Lister was based at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney, and was appointed Head of Astrophysics in 2000. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UWA and Premier’s Fellow at UWA. He was appointed ICRAR/UWA Science Director in 2014, and Interim Executive Director in 2022. Lister is preparing for the SKA through his research using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and other world-class international radio facilities.