Our people
Meet our teams of directors, academics, PhD students and committee members.
Leadership group
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Distinguished Professor Jean Brodie
CAS Director -
Professor Michael Murphy
CAS Deputy Director; COMBS Chief Investigator
Academic staff
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Rebecca Allen | Co-Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute | |
| Distinguished Professor Matthew Bailes | Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) | |
| Dr Kirsten Banks | kbanks@swinburne.edu.au | Lecturer; OzGrav Public Outreach and Engagement |
| Professor Chris Blake | Research and Teaching Faculty | |
| Distinguished Professor Jean Brodie | CAS Director | |
| Associate Professor Michelle Cluver | Associate Professor, Galaxy Evolution | |
| Professor Jeff Cooke | Professor, OzGrav Chief Investigator; ASTRO 3D Associate Investigator | |
| Professor Warrick Couch |
Distinguished Professor, Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology | |
| Professor Darren Croton |
Research Professor | |
| Dr Rebecca Davies | rdavies@swinburne.edu.au | ARC DECRA Fellow and STACK Technical Secretary |
| Professor Adam Deller | Pulsar / Fast Radio Bursts Researcher | |
| Professor Alan Duffy | Pro Vice-Chancellor, Flagship Initiatives | |
| Associate Professor Kim Ellis Hayes |
kgellis@swinburne.edu.au | Major Discipline Coordinator, Space Technology; Senior Lecturer |
| Associate Professor Deanne Fisher |
Associate Professor, Galaxies | |
| Professor Christopher Fluke | Director, Advanced Visualisation Laboratory | |
| Professor Duncan Forbes | Professor | |
| Distinguished Professor Karl Glazebrook | Distinguished Professor; Laureate Fellow | |
| Professor Alister Graham | Former ARC Future Fellow; Associate Investigator with OzGrav; Course Coordinator for Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO) | |
| Professor Jarrod Hurley |
Supercomputing Manager; Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) / Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) Lead; OzGrav Node Leader | |
| Associate Professor Glenn Kacprzak | Associate Professor, Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Evolution | |
| Professor Virginia Kilborn | Swinburne Chief Scientist | |
| Associate Professor Ivo Labbe | ilabbe@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoc Coordinator |
| Dr Anais Möller | amoller@swinburne.edu.au | ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer |
| Emeritus Professor Jeremy Mould |
Centre for Dark Matter Chief Investigator | |
| Professor Michael Murphy | CAS Deputy Director, COMBS Chief Investigator | |
| Dr Themiya Nanayakkara |
+61 3 9214 8546 |
Astronomer at the James Webb Australian Data Centre |
| Dr Jade Powell |
+61 3 9214 4873 |
ARC DECRA Fellow in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
| Professor Emma Ryan-Weber | Director, ARC Centre for Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) | |
| Professor Ryan Shannon | Professor | |
| Dr Simon Stevenson |
+61 3 9214 4841 |
OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher and ARC DECRA Fellow |
| Associate Professor Ned Taylor | Associate Professor, Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology | |
| Dr Sara Webb | swebb@swinburne.edu.au | SAO Course Director, Research in Transient Astronomy, SYSIC/SHINE Director, Microgravity Program Lead Space Technology and Industry Institute |
Adjuncts
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Brett Addison | baddison2005@gmail.com | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Dr Michael Beasley | mikey.beasley@gmail.com | Adjunct Professor Globular Clusters and Stellar Populations Research |
| Dr Andrew Cameron | andrew.cameron13@gmail.com | Pulsar Research Projects |
| Dr Mark Durré | mdurre@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Research Fellow |
| Dr Anna Ferre-Mateu | aferremateu@gmail.com | |
| Associate Professor Kurt Liffman | kliffman@swinburne.edu.au | SAO Casual Lecturer; Higher Degree Supervisor |
| Dr Fan Liu | fanliu@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Research Fellow |
| Professor Sarah Maddison | mad.maddison@gmail.com | Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education & Student Experience at UNSW |
| Associate Professor Nikki Nielsen | nikkimnielsen@gmail.com | Adjunct Associate Professor - Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Evolution |
| Dr Rossi Ruggeri | rruggeri@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Postdoc, split between UQ and Swinburne |
| Dr. Mohsen Shamohammadi | mshamohammadi@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Jielai Zhang | jielaizhang@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Research Fellow; OzGrav Research Affiliate |
Postdoctoral fellows
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Tania Barone | tbarone@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Dr Adam Batten | abatten@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Emma Carli | ecarli@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav 2.0 Postdoc - Pulsars |
| Dr Harry Chittenden | hchittenden@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Associate in JWST Science |
| Dr Chris Flynn | Pulsars, Fast Radio Bursts, Radio Transients | |
| Dr Jonah Gannon | jgannon@swinburne.edu.au | Director's Research Fellow |
| Dr Shreejit Jadhav | spjadhav@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Postdoc - GW Data Analysis and Instrumentation |
| Joscha Jahns-Schindler | jjahnsschindler@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoc – Fast Radio Bursts |
| Dr Marcus Lower | mlower@swinburne.edu.au | ARC DECRA Fellow - Pulsars, Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts |
| Dr Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo | bmazzilliciraulo@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Research Fellow; CAS Colloquia Co-Organiser |
| Dr Ben McAllister | bmcallister@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Fellow - Dark Matter Detection |
| Dr Toby Mitchell | tjmitchell@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Dr Robert Mostoghiu | rmostoghiupaun@swinburne.edu.au | ARC CDMPP Research Associate, Dark Matter Simulations |
| Dr Joel Pfeffer | jpfeffer@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Daniel Reardon | OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher, Pulsar Timing | |
| Dr Agne Semenaite | asemenaite@swinburne.edu.au | Research Associate - Cosmology (Galaxy Clustering, Weak Lensing) |
| Dr Robert Song | yuzhesong@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Ryan Turner | rjturner@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Researcher, Cosmology, Large-scale Structure and Peculiar Velocities |
| Dr. Yuanming Wang | yuanmingwang@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Fellow in Fast Radio Bursts |
Technical, Outreach and Support staff
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Eman Ali | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Jackie Bondell | OzGrav Education and Outreach Coordinator | |
| Jes Cantos | jcantos@swinburne.edu.au | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support |
| Lauren Carter |
+61 3 9214 3398 |
OzGrav Business and EDI Specialist |
| Dr Conrad Chan | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Patrick Clearwater | pclearwater@swinburne.edu.au | GWDC / ADACS Software Developer |
| Dr Yeshe Fenner | Chief Operating Officer, OzGrav | |
| Will Gauvin | wgauvin@swinburne.edu.au | ADACS Senior Software Engineer |
| Diana Haikal | dhaikal@swinburne.edu.au | Senior Communications and Engagement Advisor |
| Andrew Jameson | Senior Software Engineer | |
| Carl Knox | Digital Media and Marketing Officer | |
| Lewis Lakerink | llakerink@swinburne.edu.au | Senior Software Engineer |
| Asher Leslie | jaleslie@swinburne.edu.au | GWDC / ADACS UX Designer and Software Engineer |
| Dr David Liptai | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Mark Myers | markmyers@swinburne.edu.au | Education and Outreach Content Creator |
| Erin O'Grady | Project Officer | |
| Simon Parsons | Research Administrator, ASTRO 3D and Dark Matter | |
| Dr Greg Poole | Astronomy Data Science Program Coordinator | |
| Dr Shibli Saleheen | ADACS Software Engineer | |
| Ray Seikel | rseikel@swinburne.edu.au | Senior Software Engineer |
| Bec Todd | ADACS and GWDC Research Coordinator; OzGrav Research Coordinator |
Postgraduate students
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Asha Abd | aabd@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - JWST anomaly detection |
| Jasmine Anderson-Baldwin | jandersonbaldwin@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Stellar Evolution and Star Clusters |
| Patricia Arens | patricia.a.arens@gmail.com | PhD student |
| Jacob Askew | jaskew@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student and Student Representative - Millisecond Pulsars |
| Amrita Banerjee | amritabanerjee@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student – Massive dead galaxies in the early history of the Universe, the evolution of the galaxies through cosmic time. |
| Aryan Bansal | aryanbansal@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology |
| Adarsh Bathula | abathula@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student – Fast Radio Bursts |
| Michael Bradley | 2496844@student.swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Brian Brady | bbrady@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Astro Visualisation |
| Luisa Buzzo | PhD student - Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies | |
| Dylan Dance | ddance@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Lewis de Zoete | 101606593@student.swinburne.edu.au | Honors student - Astronomical Visual Inspection |
| Tyson Dial | tdial@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts |
| Rory Elliott | roryelliott@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - High Redshift Galaxy Outflow Studies |
| Nimas Emas | PhD student | |
| Antonia Fernandez Figueroa | PhD student | |
| Jim Freeburn | jfreeburn@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows |
| Pratyasha Gitika | pgitika@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Pulsars |
| Lydia Haacke | lhaacke@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Ultra Diffuse Galaxies |
| Magdalena Hamel Bravo | mhamelbravo@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Ray Hilton | 103284166@student.swinburne.edu.au | Masters by Research student - Optical detection of resident space objects |
| Tyler Hughes | tjhughes@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Machine Learning Application in Astronomy |
| Akhil Jaini | ajaini@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student – Fast Radio Bursts |
| Vanshika kansal | vkansal@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student – Weak lensing, Dark matter |
| Renee Key | rkey@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Primordial Black Holes and Student Outreach Coordinator |
| Atharva Kulkarni | adkulkarni@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Pulsar Studies |
| Arsen Levitskiy | alevitskiy@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Ultra Diffuse Galaxies |
| Monse Martinez | mmartinezmarin@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Machine Learning Galaxy Evolution |
| Ankita Mondal | amondal@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student – Galactic Archaeology |
| Aaron Myszka | amyszka@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Evolution |
| Ashwathi Nair | ashwathinair@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student- Stellar astrophysics and Gravitational waves |
| Andrew Nguyen | andnguyen@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Cosmology |
| Tamsyn O'Beirne | tobeirne@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - HI and galaxy environment |
| Tony Pilkington | PhD student - Globular Clusters | |
| Lena Pless | lpless@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - High Redshift Galaxies and Student Representative |
| Sparrow Roch | sroch@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Pulsars |
| Stephanie Rowlands | stephanierowlands@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Galaxy outflows at high redshift |
| Neal Salan | nsalan@swinburne.edu.au | Masters by Research student |
| Ben Scott | benjaminscott@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Solar Twin / Quasar Probes of Electromagnetism's Strength |
| Alma Sebastian | PhD student - XQR30 | |
| Raj Aryan Singh | rasingh@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Axion Dark matter |
| Daniel Smith | danielsmith@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Micro Optics in Astronomy |
| Mark Suhr | msuhr@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Superluminous Supernovae |
| Adam Ussing | aussing@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Dark Matter Simulations |
| Pavan Uttarkar | puttarkar@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts |
| Natasha Van Bemmel | nvanbemmel@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Transients |
| Wesley Van Kempen | wvankempen@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Olivia Vidal Velazquez | ovidalvelazquez@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - FINK: Supernovae and machine learning |
| Hugo Walsh | hwalsh@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Visual Discovery |
| Tallulah Waterson | twaterson@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Resident Space Objects |
| Bailee Wolfe | bwolfe@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student & OzGrav Outreach Ambassador |
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