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PROFESSOR ANNE GREEN

Anne Green is a radio astronomer whose main research focus is the study of the structure and ecology of the Milky Way Galaxy with particular interest in supernova remnants, the relics of exploded stars.

She was Director of the Molonglo Observatory for ten years and is now Head of the School of Physics and Director of the Science Foundation for Physics within the University of Sydney. Professor Green is a graduate of both Melbourne and Sydney Universities and held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut for Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany, before retiring from academia to travel Europe, live in Belgium and Switzerland and have two children.

After a return to Sydney and fifteen years away from astronomy, she resumed her research career. She is also leader of the SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) project, which is prototyping technology and undertaking science projects as a forerunner to an amazing new telescope for the future called the Square Kilometre Array.