Joanne Whittaker

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Joanne Whittaker is a marine geophysicist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. She studies the Earth's structure and how it changes over time, looking at deep and surface processes. She won the Dorothy Hill Award in 2017 and the L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship in 2013.

She earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney in 2003, and a Master of Geophysics in 2005 from the University of Wellington. Her master's thesis was Late Tertiary vertical movements and sedimentation. She completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 2008, with research on tectonic consequences of mid-ocean ridge evolution and subduction.

Whittaker's work helps scientists understand Earth's history, including the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea and the development of ocean basins around Australia. Since 2008 she has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.