Professor Tamara Davis
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Tamara Davis

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Background

Professor Tamara Davis is an astrophysicist who studies the elusive “dark energy” that’s accelerating the universe. She completed her PhD in 2004 at the University of New South Wales on theoretical cosmology and black holes, then worked on supernova cosmology in two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the Australian National University (collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and the second at the University of Copenhagen. In 2008 she moved to Queensland to join the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey team working on mapping the galaxies in the Universe. She led the Dark Theme within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, is now leading the OzDES survey -- working with the international Dark Energy Survey, and working with working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project. As of 2024 she is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.

Her accolades include the Astronomical Society of Australia's Louise Webster Medal for early career research impact, the L'Oréal Women in Science Fellowship for Australia, the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lectureship, the Australian Academy of Science’s Nancy Millis Medal for outstanding female leadership in science, an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, the Astronomical Society of Australia's Ellery Lectureship, and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Availability

Professor Tamara Davis is:
Not available for supervision
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Fields of research

Physical Sciences

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Research interests

  • Cosmology, Dark Energy, and Dark Matter

    Using supernovae, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the Universe to learn about fundamental physics. On a quest to map all the galaxies in the observable Universe.

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265 works between 2001 and 2025
All (265) Journal Article (257) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (5) Other Outputs (1)

181 - 200 of 265 works

2017

Journal Article

The need for accurate redshifts in supernova cosmology

Calcino, Josh and Davis, Tamara (2017). The need for accurate redshifts in supernova cosmology. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017 (1) 038, 038-038. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/038

The need for accurate redshifts in supernova cosmology

2016

Journal Article

Cosmology with peculiar velocities: observational effects

Andersen, P., Davis, T. M. and Howlett, C. (2016). Cosmology with peculiar velocities: observational effects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 (4), 4083-4092. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2252

Cosmology with peculiar velocities: observational effects

2016

Journal Article

Classification of 17 DES supernova with OzDES

Mudd, D., Martini, P., Lewis, G. F., Moller, A., Sharp, R. G., Sommer, N. E., Tucker, B. E., Yuan, F., Zhang, B., Asorey, J., Davis, T. M., Hinton, S., Muthukrishna, D., Parkinson, D., Carnero, A., King, A., Lidman, C., Webb, S., Uddin, S., Kessler, R., Lasker, J., Scolnic, D., Brout, D. J., D'Andrea, C., Gladney, L., March, M., Sako, M., Wolf, R. C., Brown, P. J. ... Schubnell, M. (2016). Classification of 17 DES supernova with OzDES. The Astronomer's Telegram (9742)

Classification of 17 DES supernova with OzDES

2016

Journal Article

RedMaGiC: selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data

Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Abate, A., Bonnett, C., Crocce, M., Davis, C., Hoyle, B., Leistedt, B., Peiris, H. V., Wechsler, R. H., Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Benoit-Levy, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carollo, D., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Childress, M. J., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B. ... da Costa, L. N. (2016). RedMaGiC: selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461 (2), 1431-1450. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw1281

RedMaGiC: selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data

2016

Journal Article

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Aleksic, J., Allam, S., Amara, A., Bacon, D., Balbinot, E., Banerji, M., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Levy, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bonnett, C., Bridle, S., Brooks, D., Brunner, R. J., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Caminha, G. B., Capozzi, D., Carlsen, J., Carnero-Rosell, A., Carollo, M., Carrasco-Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Clerkin, L., Collett, T. ... Zuntz, J. (2016). The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460 (2), 1270-1299. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw641

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

2016

Journal Article

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

Bonnett, C., Troxel, M. A., Hartley, W., Amara, A., Leistedt, B., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bridle, S. L., Bruderer, C., Busha, M. T., Kind, M. Carrasco, Childress, M. J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C., Crocce, M., Davis, T. M., Eifler, T. F., Frieman, J., Gangkofner, C., Gaztanaga, E., Glazebrook, K., Gruen, D., Kacprzak, T., King, A., Kwan, J., Lahav, O., Lewis, G., Lidman, C., Lin, H. ... Walker, A. R. (2016). Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing. Physical Review D, 94 (4) 042005. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.042005

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

2016

Journal Article

GAMA/WiggleZ: the 1.4 GHz radio luminosity functions of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies and their redshift evolution to z = 0.75

Pracy, Michael B., Ching, John H. Y., Sadler, Elaine M., Croom, Scott M., Baldry, I. K., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Couch, Warrick J., Davis, Tamara M., Drinkwater, Michael J., Hopkins, A. M., Jarvis, M. J., Jelliffe, Ben, Jurek, Russell J., Loveday, J., Pimbblet, K. A., Prescott, M., Wisnioski, Emily and Woods, David (2016). GAMA/WiggleZ: the 1.4 GHz radio luminosity functions of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies and their redshift evolution to z = 0.75. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460 (1), 2-17. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw910

GAMA/WiggleZ: the 1.4 GHz radio luminosity functions of high- and low-excitation radio galaxies and their redshift evolution to z = 0.75

2016

Journal Article

Light curves of 213 type Ia supernovae from the Essence survey

Narayan, G., Rest, A., Tucker, B. E., Foley, R. J., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Challis, P., Stubbs, C., Kirshner, R. P., Aguilera, C., Becker, A. C., Blondin, S., Clocchiatti, A., Covarrubias, R., Damke, G., Davis, T. M., Filippenko, A. V., Ganeshalingam, M., Garg, A., Garnavich, P. M., Hicken, M., Jha, S. W., Krisciunas, K., Leibundgut, B., Li, W., Matheson, T., Miknaitis, G., Pignata, G., Prieto, J. L., Riess, A. G. ... Zenteno, A. (2016). Light curves of 213 type Ia supernovae from the Essence survey. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 224 (1) 3, 3. doi: 10.3847/0067-0049/224/1/3

Light curves of 213 type Ia supernovae from the Essence survey

2016

Journal Article

The Redmapper galaxy cluster catalog from DES science verification data

Rykoff, E. S., Rozo, E., Hollowood, D., Bermeo-Hernandez, A., Jeltema, T., Mayers, J., Romer, A. K., Rooney, P., Saro, A., Cervantes, C. Vergara, Wechsler, R. H., Wilcox, H., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Benoit-Levy, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Kind, M. Carrasco, Castander, F. J., Childress, M., Collins, C. A., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B. ... Zhang, Y. (2016). The Redmapper galaxy cluster catalog from DES science verification data. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 224 (1) 1, 1. doi: 10.3847/0067-0049/224/1/1

The Redmapper galaxy cluster catalog from DES science verification data

2016

Journal Article

Marz: manual and automatic redshifting software

Hinton, S. R., Davis, Tamara M., Lidman, C., Glazebrook, K. and Lewis, G. F. (2016). Marz: manual and automatic redshifting software. Astronomy and Computing, 15, 61-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2016.03.001

Marz: manual and automatic redshifting software

2016

Journal Article

DES14X3taz: A type I superlumious supernova showing a luminous, rapidly cooling initial pre-peak bump

Smith, M., Sullivan, M., D'Andrea, C. B., Castander, F. J., Casas, R., Prajs, S., Papadopoulos, A., Nichol, R. C., Karpenka, N. V., Bernard, S. R., Brown, P., Cartier, R., Cooke, J., Curtin, C., Davis, T. M., Finley, D. A., Foley, R. J., Gal-Yam, A., Goldstein, D. A., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Gupta, R. R., Howell, D. A., Inserra, C., Kessler, R., Lidman, C., Marriner, J., Nugent, P., Pritchard, T. A., Sako, M. ... Wester, W. (2016). DES14X3taz: A type I superlumious supernova showing a luminous, rapidly cooling initial pre-peak bump. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 818 (1) L8, L8. doi: 10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L8

DES14X3taz: A type I superlumious supernova showing a luminous, rapidly cooling initial pre-peak bump

2016

Journal Article

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: bulk flows on 50-70 h(-1) Mpc scales

Scrimgeour, Morag I., Davis, Tamara M., Blake, Chris, Staveley-Smith, Lister, Magoulas, Christina, Springob, Christopher M., Beutler, Florian, Colless, Matthew, Johnson, Andrew, Jones, D. Heath, Koda, Jun, Lucey, John R., Ma, Yin-Zhe, Mould, Jeremy and Poole, Gregory B. (2016). The 6dF Galaxy Survey: bulk flows on 50-70 h(-1) Mpc scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455 (1), 386-401. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2146

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: bulk flows on 50-70 h(-1) Mpc scales

2015

Journal Article

OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

Yuan, Fang, Lidman, C., Davis, T. M., Childress, M., Abdalla, F. B., Banerji, M., Buckley-Geer, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Carollo, D., Castander, F. J., D'Andrea, C. B., Diehl, H. T., Cunha, C. E., Foley, R. J., Frieman, J., Glazebrook, K., Gschwend, J., Hinton, S., Jouvel, S., Kessler, R., Kim, A. G., King, A. L., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Lewis, G. F., Lin, H., Martini, P., McMahon, R. G., Mould, J. ... Walker, A. R. (2015). OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452 (3), 3047-3063. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1507

OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

2015

Journal Article

Simulations of the OzDES AGN reverberation mapping project

King, Anthea L., Martini, Paul, Davis, Tamara M., Denney, K. D., Kochanek, C. S., Peterson, Bradley M., Skielboe, Andreas, Vestergaard, Marianne, Huff, Eric, Watson, Darach, Banerji, Manda, McMahon, Richard, Sharp, Rob and Lidman, C. (2015). Simulations of the OzDES AGN reverberation mapping project. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453 (2), 1701-1726. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1718

Simulations of the OzDES AGN reverberation mapping project

2015

Journal Article

Constraints and tensions in testing general relativity from Planck and CFHTLenS data including intrinsic alignment systematics

Dossett, Jason N., Ishak, Mustapha, Parkinson, David and Davis, Tamara M. (2015). Constraints and tensions in testing general relativity from Planck and CFHTLenS data including intrinsic alignment systematics. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 92 (2) 023003, 023003-1-023003-12. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.023003

Constraints and tensions in testing general relativity from Planck and CFHTLenS data including intrinsic alignment systematics

2015

Journal Article

Local gravitational redshifts can bias cosmological measurements

Wojtak, Radoslaw, Davis, Tamara M. and Wiis, Jophiel (2015). Local gravitational redshifts can bias cosmological measurements. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015 (7) 025, 1-17. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/07/025

Local gravitational redshifts can bias cosmological measurements

2015

Journal Article

Erratum: the stellar masses of ~40 000 UV-selected galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman break galaxies?

Banerji, Manda, Glazebrook, Karl, Blake, Chris, Brough, Sarah, Colless, Matthew, Contreras, Carlos, Couch, Warrick, Croton, Darren J., Croom, Scott, Davis, Tamara M., Drinkwater, Michael J., Forster, Karl, Gilbank, David, Gladders, Mike, Jelliffe, Ben, Jurek, Russell J., Li, I-hui, Madore, Barry, Christopher Martin, D., Pimbblet, Kevin, Poole, Gregory B., Pracy, Michael, Sharp, Rob, Wisnioski, Emily, Woods, David, Wyder, Ted K. and Yee, H. K.C. (2015). Erratum: the stellar masses of ~40 000 UV-selected galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman break galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447 (1), 325-325. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu2478

Erratum: the stellar masses of ~40 000 UV-selected galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman break galaxies?

2015

Journal Article

Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data with near-infrared data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey

Banerji, Manda, Jouvel, S., Lin, H., McMahon, R. G., Lahav, O., Castander, F. J., Abdalla, F. B., Bertin, E., Bosman, S. E., Carnero, A., Kind, M. Carrasco, da Costa, L. N., Gerdes, D., Gschwend, J., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Merson, A., Miller, C., Ogando, R., Pellegrini, P., Reed, S., Saglia, R., Sanchez, C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bernstein, G., Bernstein, J., Bernstein, R., Capozzi, D. D. ... Zuntz, J. (2015). Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data with near-infrared data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446 (3), 2523-2539. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu2261

Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data with near-infrared data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey

2015

Journal Article

Probing primordial non-Gaussianity via iSW measurements with SKA continuum surveys

Raccanelli, Alvise, Dore, Olivier, Bacon, David J., Maartens, Roy, Santos, Mario G., Camera, Stefano, Davis, Tamara M., Drinkwater, Michael J., Jarvis, Matt, Norris, Ray and Parkinson, David (2015). Probing primordial non-Gaussianity via iSW measurements with SKA continuum surveys. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015 (1) 042, 1-16. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/01/042

Probing primordial non-Gaussianity via iSW measurements with SKA continuum surveys

2014

Journal Article

Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

Sanchez, C., Kind, M. Carrasco, Lin, H., Miquel, R., Abdalla, F. B., Amara, A., Banerji, M., Bonnett, C., Brunner, R., Capozzi, D., Carnero, A., Castander, F. J., da Costa, L. A. N., Cunha, C., Fausti, A., Gerdes, D., Greisel, N., Gschwend, J., Hartley, W., Jouvel, S., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marti, P., Ogando, R. L. C., Ostrovski, F., Pellegrini, P., Rau, M. M., Sadeh, I. ... Zuntz, J. (2014). Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445 (2), 1482-1506. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1836

Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2028
    Cosmic Cartography to Counter Cosmic Conundrums
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Australian Partnership in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (ARC LIEF administered by UNSW)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2031
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (ARC Centre of Excellence administered by Swinburne University)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    A Space Odyssey: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational-Wave Sirens
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2025
    Big Questions Institute Fellowship
    Big Questions Institute Pty Ltd
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2019 - 2024
    Illuminating the Dark Universe
    ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Doubling the power of the TAIPAN survey facility (ARC LIEF grant administered by The Australian National University)
    Australian National University
    Open grant
  • 2017
    Ian Potter Conference Grant: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting 2017
    Ian Potter Foundation
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Weighing Black Holes with The Australian Dark Energy Survey
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2019
    Details of the Dark Side
    Vice-Chancellor's Research and Teaching Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    The Australian European Southern Observatory Positioner (AESOP) (ARC LIEF Project administered by The University of Western Australia)
    University of Western Australia
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Mapping the Dark Matter with Early Type Galaxies (ARC Linkage Project administered by Swinburne University of Technology)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Mapping the Universe with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) (ARC LIEF Grant administered by The University of Sydney)
    ARC LIEF Collaborating/Partner Organisation Contributions
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2017
    ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) (ARC COE administered by the University of Sydney)
    University of Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    ResTeach 2011 0.05 FTE School of Mathematics and Physics
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Fundamental physics in distant galaxies (ARC Discovery Project administered by Swinburne University)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Investigating Growth of Structure in the Universe using ASKAP and SkyMapper
    UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2014
    Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Flow: Galaxy motion reveals fundamental physics
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    Cosmological testing of fundamental physics
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Tamara Davis is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Gravitational wave cosmology

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Measuring Neutrino Mass with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Weighing supermassive black holes with the Dark Energy Survey

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Benjamin Pope

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Galaxy motions with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Khaled Said Soliman

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Observing Naked-Eye Stars and their Planets with TESS

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Benjamin Pope

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Modelling exotic cosmological models in the era of next generation galaxy surveys

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Completing the Puzzle: Unveiling Clues for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and Cosmology with Simulations

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Using the motions of galaxies to probe fundamental physics

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Investigating Gravitational Wave Cosmology with Simulated Data

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Machine learning cosmology

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rossana Ruggeri

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Completing the Puzzle: Unveiling Clues for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and Cosmology with Simulations

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Dark energy
  • Dark Matter
  • Exploding stars
  • Physics
  • Quantum gravity
  • Stars - astrophysics
  • Supernovae (exploding stars)
  • Universe
  • Vacuum energy

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