{"id":21043,"date":"2024-07-02T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/?p=21043"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:51:29","slug":"careers-corner-how-do-you-become-an-astrophysicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/careers-corner-how-do-you-become-an-astrophysicist\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers Corner: How do you become an Astrophysicist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it take to become a Radio Astrophysicist? \ud83d\udd2d\ud83c\udf0c<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/curtinuniversity\/\">Curtin University<\/a> Astronomy PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAD8V2Q0BvNA2kdvxPKmImoLwmt-tCZv07MQ\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/angie-waszewski\/\">Angie Waszewski<\/a> sat down with Curtin Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics graduate and Associate Lecturer Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAD1uAQEBqYLBd6oDqmNuBGEpWXxfc8ZtyWk\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/astrokatross\/\">Kat Ross<\/a> to learn more about what it takes to become a Radio Astronomer.<br><br>Kat is passionate about studying the mysteries of baby black holes, supermassive blackholes and twinkling galaxies. In 2022, she was named joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/exxonmobil\/\">ExxonMobil<\/a> Student Scientist of the Year in the WA Premiers Science Awards for her outstanding work in this realm.<br><br>She is also the Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/includeher\/\">IncludeHer<\/a>, which is a movement seeking to bring a diverse representation of scientists and role models into classrooms to inspire students to become future STEM leaders. \ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udd2c<br><br>Kat shares some of the skills needed for an astrophysics career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/curtin-university-alumni_careers-corner-how-do-you-become-an-astrophysicist-activity-7223922605655834624-0ONO?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us as we chat with Dr. Kat Ross, a renowned radio astronomer, to explore the mysteries of black holes and galaxies, and learn about the exciting career path of a radio astronomer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":21044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","wds_primary_category":710,"footnotes":""},"categories":[710],"tags":[363,709],"class_list":["post-21043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-after-curtin","tag-career-advice","tag-linkedin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25155,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions\/25155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}