Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths FAA is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics of the Australian National University.  She is also the Chief Scientist of the SKA Observatory. 

Professor McClure-Griffiths received her undergraduate degree in Physics at Oberlin College and her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota.  She held roles at CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility as an OCE Science Leader and the Head of National Facility Science before moving to the ANU in 2015.  Prof McClure-Griffiths is the recipient of various prizes including the 2006 Prime Minister’s Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year and the 2015 Pawsey medal of the Australian Academy of Science for contributions to physics. In 2022 McClure-Griffiths was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academyof Science.

Prof McClure-Griffiths's research team studies interstellar gas and magnetic fields of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies.  She is co-Principal Investigator on two of the large observational surveys underway with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP): the Galactic ASKAP survey, GASKAP, and the Polarisation Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM).  In addition to her current research, Prof  McClure-Griffiths has been heavily involved in planning for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).  She was the Chair of the international SKA Science and Engineering Advisory Committee (SEAC) from 2020 - 2025.

BA (Hons), PhD

Prof McClure-Griffiths works primariliy on the evolution of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. Her research group aims to understand how galaxies work by getting at three of their biggest evolutionary drivers: gas evolution, magnetism and feedback.