Research Interests of ATNF Staff

James Allison

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Detection of extragalactic 21cm absorption HI in the host galaxies of AGN The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

HomePage: www.csiro.au

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Shaun Amy

Group: Computing Infrastructure

Interests:: Supernova remnants, HII regions, computing, image processing and techniques in radio astronomy.

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Lewis Ball

Group: CASS Executive

Interests:: Radio supernovae, supernova remnants, particle acceleration, time-dependent synchrotron emission, pulsar winds

HomePage: http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/Lewis.Ball/

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Keith Bannister

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: "Archival and Future Searches for Radio Transients"

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Eric Bastholm

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: ASKAP

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Ron Beresford

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: EMC UWB survey prototype tests

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Douglas Bock

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:: Supernova remnants and pulsars surveys

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Leonie Boddington

Group: Observatory Operations

Interests:: Heritage Induction

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Robin Boddington

Group: Directors Office

Interests:: ASKAP Aboriginal Liaison Officer. Visitors Centre

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Russell Bolton

Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)

Interests:: Cryogenic low noise receivers for radioastronomy, Microwave electronics, Precision machining, High quality metal surface finishing, CAD design.

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Marie-Louise Bortolazzo

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Interests:: CSIRO HSE & CARS Training

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Shari Breen

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: "Masers as evolutionary traces of star formation"

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Christoph Brem

Group: Engineering Operations

Interests:: Instrumentation

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David Brodrick

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: "Astronomical Observations using Low Frequency Radio Interferometers"

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Kate Brooks

Group: Observatory Operations

Interests:: Massive star formation, millimetre and infrared observations

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/kbrooks

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Santiago Castillo

Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)

Interests:: C/X Rx Installation

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Jessica Chapman

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: Stellar masers and AGB stars. Late Stages of Stellar Evolution. Stellar mass-loss and circumstellar Envelopes. High-mass stars. Galactic Structure and stellar distances. Data Management Systems

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Jessica.Chapman/

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Aaron Chippendale

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:: Phased array feeds, antenna measurements, epoch of reionisation (21cm).

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/chi139/

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Kate Chow

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population. Deep radio surveys.

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Shi Dai

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Pulsar Astronomy and high energy astrophysics

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Joanne Dawson

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Galactic ISM, molecular cloud formation

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Joanne.Dawson/

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Helga Denes

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Global HI properties of galaxies in the Southern Sky

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Xinping Deng

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Thesis "Pulsar timing and its application in spacecraft navigation"

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Ron Ekers

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, especially radio observations of galactic nuclei including the Galactic centre and radio continuum emission from starforming regions. Radio telescopes, interference mitigation and image formation theory. International scientific collaborations, SKA and IAU.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Ron.Ekers/

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Dick Ferris

Group: Engineering & Operations(Electronics Group)

Interests:: Wideband data acquisition and digital signal processing hardware, digital filter design, advanced correlators, signal path design for SKA, VLBI instrumentation, general radio telescope instrumentation

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Ross Forsyth

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:: Parkes 12-m antenna infrastructure development

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Daniel George

Group: Engineering (Marsfield)

Interests:: Summer student in engineering.

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Russell Gough

Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)

Interests:: Radioastronomy receiver systems, Low-noise amplifiers, Monolithic microwave integrated circuit design, Radioastronomy.

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Lisa Harvey-Smith

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, rotation measures, masers, maser polarimetry, massive star-formation, VLBI.

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Craig Haskins

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: ASKAP

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Douglas Hayman

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:: ASKAP/12m commissioning phased array feeds

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George Heald

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Galaxy evolution, low frequency surveys, radio polarimetry

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/George.Heald/

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Ian Heywood

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Galaxy evolution, star formation and the SF history of the Universe, AGN, accretion-powered outflows, radio continuum and spectral line surveys, next-gen radio interferometry techniques and telescopes, etc.

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George Hobbs

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Pulsars, Astrometry, Computing

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Robert Hollow

Group: Research Support(Communications)

Interests:: Astronomy education. Student-based investigations in astronomy. Remote/robotic telescopes for education. Teacher research schemes.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Robert.Hollow/

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Shinji Horiuchi

Group: Tidbinbilla

Interests:: AGNs, Cosmic Masers, SKA, VLBI, Single Dish Observations

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Aidan Hotan

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: Pulsar timing, instrumentation

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Suzy Jackson

Group: Engineering Operations

Interests:: Integrated RF systems, RF-CMOS design, signal processing, instrumentation.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Suzy.Jackson

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Simon Johnston

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Pulsars, Supernova remnants, polarization, ASKAP

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Simon.Johnston/

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Matthew Kerr

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Pulsars!

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Mike Kesteven

Group: Astrophysics,Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:: Supernova remnants, Antenna metrology, Radio interferometry.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mkesteve

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Amy Kimball

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Quasars/AGN, super-massive black holes, high-redshift galaxies, evolution of radio sources.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Amy.Kimball/

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Baerbel Koribalski

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: galaxies in the Local Volume; galaxy kinematics, formation & evolution; star formation; HI surveys

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/bkoribal/

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Ed Kruzins

Group: Tidbinbilla

Interests:: Space Tracking

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Karen Lee-Waddell

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: HI in galaxy groups

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Erik Lensson

Group: Engineering & Operations(Leader)

Interests:: ATNF Operations, RFI detection, tracking & countermeasures

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Adam MacLeod

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:: ASKAP Systems Engineer

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Stacy Mader

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: Effect of Supernova remnants & HII regions on isolated/clustered star formation in giant molecular clouds; Multiwavelengths observations of outflows from young stellar objects; NH3 line spectroscopy of molecular clouds; Radio recombination-lines.

HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/smader

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Juan Madrid

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Galaxies

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Dick Manchester

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Pulsars, supernova remnants, globular clusters. Astrometry and Time. Radiation Mechanisms. Galactic Interstellar Medium and Magnetic Fields.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/Dick.Manchester/

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Malte Marquarding

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: Late-Type Galaxies

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Josh Marvil

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Radio Continuum, Local Galaxies

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David McConnell

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: Radio Astronomy. Pulsars - high time resolution studies.Pulsar emission mechanisms. Pulsar observing techniques. Time scales and reference frames. Computing, digital signal processing and data acquisition for radio astronomy, polarimetry in radio astronomy.

HomePage: mcc381@atnf.csiro.au

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Korinne McDonnell

Group: Tidbinbilla(CDSCC)

Interests:: Supernova remnants with molecular clouds, masers

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Vince McIntyre

Group: Computing Infrastructure

Interests:: Galaxies, LMXBs, Radio Continuum Surveys of Magellanic Clouds, Virtual Observatories, computing

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Vincent.McIntyre/

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Daniel Mitchell

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: Technical challenges of forthcoming wide-field radio arrays, in particular calibration, wide-field imaging, and interference mitigation.

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Ray Norris

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Deep radio surveys, galaxies in the early Universe; The starburst-AGN connection; Methanol masers and their significance for models of star formation; Circular polarisation of quasars and galaxies; Virtual Observatory; SETI Data Management and Open Access; Aboriginal Astronomy.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Ray.Norris/

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John O'Sullivan

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Phased Array Feed

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Stephen Ord

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: Pulsars

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Chris Phillips

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: Massive star formation, VLBI, masers, mm spectroscopy, correlators 20 GHz ATCA continuum survey, disk and network based VLBI recording

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Jill Rathborne

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: molecular clouds the our Galaxy

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John Reynolds

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: Interferometry Techniques. Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Systems scientist at large Reference Frames. Astrometry. Stellar radio astronomy.

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Maria Rioja

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: MWA & VLBI calibration and imaging

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Adrian Rispler

Group: ASKAP

Interests:: ASKAP

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Paul Roberts

Group: Engineering & Operations(Electronics Group)

Interests:: Microwave and high speed circuits, integrated circuit design, photonics, signal processing, radio astronomical instrumentation.

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John Sarkissian

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: Member of several pulsar teams involved in the precision timing and discovery of millisecond pulsars. Support other pulsar observations. Involved in the characterisation of RFI at the various ATNF and related sites.

HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/jsarkiss

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Paolo Serra

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Galaxies

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Paolo.Serra

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Ryan Shannon

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: Radio pulsars

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Li Shao

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: LVHIS galaxies and database

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Robert Shaw

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:: ASKAP: designing and testing phased array feeds

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Malcolm Smith

Group: Engineering Operations

Interests:: The End of Time itself, Remote Sensing, Receiver calibration

HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/msmith/

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Jamie Stevens

Group: Science Operations

Interests:: The HI properties of galaxy groups Transients

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Michelle Storey

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: LOFAR. SKA site study issues. Electronic publishing. Active radio stars. Radio-quiet Reserve research

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Lawrence Toomey

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: Pulsars

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Tasso Tzioumis

Group: Astrophysics,National Facility Support,National Facility Support(LBA Operations)

Interests:: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Gravitational Lenses. X-ray binary stars. Digital signal processing, Imaging techniques Radio spectrum management and protection.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Tasso.Tzioumis/

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Maxim Voronkov

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: Interferometry theory, interferometry simulations, SKA design, cosmic masers mostly on methanol molecule theory and observations

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Jing Wang

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:: galaxy formation and evolution, HI surveys

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Norm Webster

Group: Narrabri Observatory(Systems Eng. Site Coord.)

Interests:: Antenna Maintenance

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Mark Wieringa

Group: Software and Computing

Interests:: Radio Interferometry, Selfcalibration & Imaging techniques. SKA/LOFAR configurations and simulations. Radio Interferometry, Selfcalibration & Imaging techniques

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Warwick Wilson

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:: Radio Astronomy Instrumentation; Digital Signal Processing; Microwave Electronics; Photonics.

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