Ray Norris is a
British/Australian astronomer with CSIRO Astronomy & Space
Science who researches how galaxies formed after the Big Bang. He also researches
the astronomy of Australian Aboriginal people, for which he is an Adjunct
Professor in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. He was educated at
Cambridge University, UK, and moved to Australia in 1983 to join CSIRO, where
he became Head of Astrophysics in 1994, and then climbed the management ladder
before returning in 2005 to active research. He currently leads an
international project to image the faintest radio galaxies in the Universe,
using the new ASKAP radiotelescope being built in Western Australia. He
frequently appears on radio and TV, performs in a stage show called "The
First Astronomers?", and has recently published a novel, Graven Images.
Last updated: 24
January 2013
Ray Norris (ray.norris@csiro.au)