I am a post-doctoral research fellow with
CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science (CASS) and the
Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). My research focuses on
pulsar astronomy within the
astrophysics group.
Working with
Simon Johnston, I study the emission of pulsars through their polarisation. I also spend my time hunting for previously unknown pulsars through the
High Time Resolution Universe survey for pulsars and fast transients at Parkes, and through searches of
Fermi gamma-ray sources.
In addition, I am a member of the
Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project, undertaking ultra-precision timing of millisecond pulsars in a race for the first direct detection of
gravitational wave radiation. At the same time, these observations can be used to study the pulsars themselves, the interstellar medium,
weigh the planets in our solar system, and even test the worlds best atomic clocks with the pulsar timescale.