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Conference:

Cosmic magnetism conference: June 7-11th 2010

Job description:

I have been working at the Australia Telescope National Facility since the 11th of September 2002. I have recently obtained an Australian Research Council QEII award that will start in early 2008. I will continue to be based at the ATNF and work on the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. A detailed description of my research can be obtained from my research page.

Highlights:

• On the 19th Dec 2007 the Science Minister opened the PULSE@Parkes project which aims to bring school students and professional astronomers together for real research.
• I am the main developer of the new pulsar timing package tempo2
  
• Have published the most stringent limit to date on the amplitude of any existing gravitational wave background (Jenet, Hobbs et al. 2006)
• Working with R. Manchester, A. Teoh and M. Hobbs, I developed the ATNF pulsar catalogue.
  
• Studied 233 pulsar proper motions to produce a new pulsar birth velocity distribution (Hobbs, Lorimer, Lyne & Kramer, 2005) - the paper already has almost 100 citations
• Provided evidence for the alignment of the rotation and velocity vectors in pulsars (Johnston, Hobbs, Vigeland, Kramer, Weisberg & Lyne 2005)
• Worked as a member of the Parkes pulsar multibeam survey team that more than doubled the known pulsar population
• Part of the team that discovered the RRAT sources.
• Worked as part of the "WildFlowers in the Sky" project with Aboriginal Children in the Western Australian Outback.
• Carried out the first overseas remote observations of the Parkes telescope with U.S. high school students.

Students

I have supervised or co-supervised the following students (apologies to anyone that I have missed):