Rutherford Memorial Medal (2014), Royal Society of Canada Sara Ellison is an Astronomy Professor at University of Victoria.
The only student in a physics class in her small, all-girls school, Ellison finished the standard curriculum quickly and spent the remainder of class time discussing astronomy with her teacher.
After finishing her graduate studies, she worked as an ESO fellow in Chile for three years, and then joined the faculty of the University of Victoria as an Assistant Professor in 2003.
[10] She appeared on CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks to answer questions about lunar landing sites.
[12] An accomplished amateur athlete, Ellison has a Boston Qualifying marathon time and age group wins in both running and triathlon.