Emma Veronica Ryan-Weber (born c. 1976) is an Australian astronomer, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, and director of the multi-institution Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D).
In year 10 at Loreto College, Victoria, she won an essay contest to travel to the US for a Space Camp.
She became a student of physics at the University of Melbourne, continuing there for her Ph.D. with doctoral research on radio astronomy at the Parkes Observatory,[2] focusing on observations of neutral hydrogen both in galaxies and in intergalactic space.
[5] She obtained a five-year postdoctoral research position at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge,[2] from 2004 through 2008,[3] through which she gained access to several large optical telescopes.
She returned to Australia to her present position at the Swinburne University of Technology,[2] initially as an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow.