Laura Nicole Driessen

I'm a radio astronomer who works with the biggest telescopes in Australia to search for radio light from stars and things that change in the radio sky.

I completed my BSc (Majoring in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Applied Maths and minoring in Physics) at Monash University in 2014, my MSc in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and my PhD in radio astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK. My master's thesis was titled "LOFAR imaging of the Galactic Plane: pulsar wind nebula G541.+0.3 and its environment" and was awarded the 2017 prize for the best astronomy master's thesis in the Netherlands. My PhD thesis was titled "Radio transients with MeerKAT". I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the CSIRO from September 2021 to January 2023, when I started as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney.

My dog Astro is a whippet who’s a bit closer to a greyhound than a whippet in size. If you’d like to use him as a unit of measure, he’s 94cm long and weighs 18kg.

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