We are pleased to announce that Dr Maxim Voronkov will join the New Technology Demonstrator (NTD) team in Marsfield on a two-year software scientist position funded by the CSIRO Emerging Science program. He will join the NTD team at the end of his SKA postdoctoral fellowship at Narrabri in March 2006 and relocate to Marsfield. Maxim's research will concentrate on developing the calibration, imaging and simulation techniques for interferometers with focal plane arrays.

Dr Maxim Voronkov. Photo: Maxim Voronkov

Maxim has previously worked on mathematical software in an object-oriented environment and gained AIPS++ experience during simulation studies of the imaging performance for the SKA. In addition to studying focal plane arrays, Maxim will continue to work on methanol masers, which were the main topic of his MSc (1999) and PhD (2002) research at the Moscow State University and the Astro Space Center in Moscow (cf separate article). He will contribute to the Parkes survey of the Southern Galactic plane using the methanol multibeam receiver as well as continue his Compact Array surveys.

Tim Cornwell
(Tim.Cornwell@csiro.au)