Tamara M. Davis

Tamara Maree Davis is an Australian astrophysicist that studies cosmology and specialises in the dark energy that is accelerating our universe. Davis is a professor and laureate fellow in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland.

The Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Nancy Millis Medal in 2015, and she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2018. She received the Astronomical Society of Australia's Louise Webster Prize in 2009, and their Robert Ellery Lectureship in 2021. She became a Member of the Order of Australia in 2020, for "significant service to astrophysical science, to education, and to young astronomers". She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in May 2025.

As an athlete, Davis has competed for Australia at an international level in Ultimate Frisbee since the year 2000, in both Open's and Master's divisions.

Education Davis completed her PhD in astrophysics at the University of New South Wales in 2004.

Davis is also a lecturer, teaching both first year physics and third year astrophysics at The University of Queensland.