Kathy Horadam: sixty

Kathy Horadam was born in 1951 in Armidale, Australia. Her BSc and PhD degrees, both in pure mathematics, are from the Australian National University. The major part of Kathy’s career has been at RMIT University, where she has been a professor of mathematics since 1995. Even though Kathy has worked in academia for 30 years, she has also undertaken defence research, working for three years in the Cryptomathematics Research group at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. A Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society and of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, Kathy leads the Information Security-Informatics Group in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT. In the past she was Head of the Department of Mathematics and the Head of the Security and Safety Program in the Platform Technologies Research Institute at RMIT.