Prof Hawkes (MBBS Hons, FRACP, DMedSc) is the Clinical Lymphoma Lead and Steering committee member of the national Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry in School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She also holds the roles of Chief Clinical Research Officer at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research & Wellness Centre and Lead of the Lymphoma service at Austin Health and  in Melbourne Australia.

After completing Medical Oncology training in Melbourne, she undertook a fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital, UK and doctoral studies at Melbourne University. She is founder and past president of the Australasian Lymphoma Alliance, is global chair of the global Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry, chaired the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Trials Group Lymphoma Working Party from 2017-2023, is a member of Scientific and/or Steering Committees for the American Society of Hematology Lymphoid Malignancies, international Women in Lymphoma group, Global Burkitt Lymphoma Network and is associate editor of ejHaem, with prior appointments as an editorial board member for Blood, Blood Advances and American Society of Clinical Oncology education committee (2020-24). Prof Hawkes runs a large research program of investigator-led trials, registry science and translational work exploring immune targets in lymphoma and has over 170 publications. She is an active member of ASCO, ASH and EHA as well as the International TCL Consortium, Hodgkin Lymphoma HOLISTIC consortium, Global LP Hodgkin Lymphoma network (GLOW).