# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kirsten-banks
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:11:50.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kirsten-banks"
name: "Kirsten Banks"
slug: "kirsten-banks"
description: "Kirsten Alexandra Banks is an Aboriginal Australian astrophysicist and science communicator of the Wiradjuri people, known for her work in promoting mainstream and Aboriginal astronomy. She earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of New South Wales in 2018, and a Ph.D in June 2024, and worked at the Sydney Observatory."
tagline: "Australian astrophysicist and science communicator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KirstenBanksProfilePhoto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1993-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.58
  momentum:             17.73936170212766
  historical:           2.417244
  currentAttention:     14.78571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Banks"
    title: "Kirsten Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Banks"
    title: "Kirsten Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65934944"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill