Karen L. Livesey is an Australian physicist, who is an associate professor at the University of Newcastle.
She was named a "Superstar of STEM" by Science Technology Australia, in the 2023–2024 cohort.
[1] Livesey was the first in her family to complete high school[2] and went on to study physics at the University of Western Australia, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 2004, and earned her PhD in 2010.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Livesey moved with her family to Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
She is now an associate professor of physics at the University of Newcastle and also is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies.