New research position at Narrabri
It is a pleasure to welcome Michael Dahlem to the Narrabri Observatory. Michael joined us in mid-January 2003 as a systems scientist, with his position giving him a mix of personal research time, and observatory systems issues. Michael, for example, will become involved at the systems end of a number of observatory developments (e.g. the two MNRF programs), the SKA and the observatory RFI environment.
Michael completed his PhD at Bonn in 1990, with his thesis concentrating on the disk-halo interaction of spiral galaxies. Since then Michael has undertaken observing projects in a number of wavelength bands - centimetre and millimetre radio, optical and ultraviolet, as well as x-rays - in both continuum and spectral-line observing modes. In addition to a number of radio telescopes, Michael has used the VLT, HST, ROSAT and XMM. The institutes where he has worked also reflect this broad wavelength interest: Michael has worked at STScI, ESA (Noordwijk), Leiden and Paranal.
Michael's scientific interests centre on the interstellar medium in galaxies, star formation and its feedback into the ISM and disk/halo interaction. Michael also has a strong interest in communicating science to non-astronomers.
Bob Sault
(Bob.Sault@csiro.au)