New Bolton fellow

Erik Muller

A big welcome to Erik Muller who started his Bolton Fellowship on 1 April 2005 at the ATNF in Epping. Erik is well-known to many of us, having completed a PhD at the University of Wollongong under the co-supervision of Lister Staveley-Smith. His main thesis topic was the high resolution study of HI and CO in the Magellanic System using the Compact Array, as well as the Parkes and Mopra telescopes.

After completing his PhD in 2003, Erik worked at the Arecibo observatory where he continued his research on the interstellar medium of perturbed systems, star formation and high velocity clouds. Erik also assisted with the commissioning of the Arecibo multibeam receiver, and wrote Arecibo data-reduction pipelines.

Erik is now a full time member of the ATNF astrophysics group and plans to spend a lot of his time on the analysis of the neutral hydrogen and molecular gas in the Magellanic System and other interacting galaxies.

Baerbel Koribalski
(Baerbel.Koribalski@csiro.au)