Research Interests of ATNF Staff

Shaun Amy

Group: Computing

Interests:

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

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Keith Bannister

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

"Archival and Future Searches for Radio Transients"

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Timothy Bateman

Group: Engineering & Operations(Electronics Group)

Interests:

Parkes Phased Array Feed testing

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Douglas Bock

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:

Supernova remnants and pulsars surveys

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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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Brian Boyle

Group: Directors Office(Director)

Interests:

Cosmology, Quasars, Large-Scale structure, Extragalactic Surveys

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Brian.Boyle/

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Robert Braun

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

The interstellar medium of our Galaxy, nearby galaxies, magnetic fields, diffuse intergalactic filaments, star formation over cosmic time

HomePage: "http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/Robert.Braun/

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Shari Breen

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

"Masers as evolutionary traces of star formation"

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David Brodrick

Group: Narrabri Observatory(Computing)

Interests:

"Astronomical Observations using Low Frequency Radio Interferometers"

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Kate Brooks

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Massive star formation, millimetre and infrared observations

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

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Mark Calabretta

Group: Computing

Interests:

Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS. Astronomical data reduction. Distributed software development

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

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Ettore Carretti

Group: Parkes Observatory(Operations)

Interests:

Cosmology, CMB, Galactic Synchrotron, CMB foregrounds, Galactic magnetic field, instruments for radio astronomy, architectures for polarization measurements, instrumental polarization source, effects, calibration.

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Santiago Castillo

Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)

Interests:

C/X Rx Installation

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James Caswell

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Astronomical Research Interests: Massive star formation. HII regions, their radio emission, and their distribution in our Galaxy. Masers of several varieties (e.g. methanol, hydroxyl, and water) in star-forming regions. Structure, dynamics and magnetic field of our Galaxy. Masers (hydroxyl, water and silicon monoxide) in late-type stars. Supernova remnants, their evolution, and their interaction with the interstellar medium. Radio telescope development, especially spectral line capabilities and interferometer arrays.

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Jessica Chapman

Group: Engineering & 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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Ankur Chaudhary

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:

Pulsars

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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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Yanett Contreras

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Star formation and filamentary structures, Thesis "Study of filamentary structures in the southern galactic plane".

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Philip Diamond

Group: Directors Office(Director)

Interests:

Masers and starburst galaxies

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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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Bjorn Emonts

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Origin and Evolution of Radio Galaxies.

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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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Thomas Franzen

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Radio surveys, extragalactic radio sources, radio synthesis imaging

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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: Astrophysics

Interests:

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

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Craig Haskins

Group: Computing

Interests:

ASKAP

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Douglas Hayman

Group: Engineering & Operations

Interests:

ASKAP/12m commissioning phased array feeds

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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(CDSCC)

Interests:

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

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Aidan Hotan

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Pulsar timing, instrumentation

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Ben Humphreys

Group: Computing

Interests:

ASKAP Computing

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/ben.humphreys

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Carole Jackson

Group: Directors Office

Interests:

Active galaxies Populations of radio-loud galaxies, their evolution and unified schemes. Distant AGN and star-forming galaxies from deep radio fields (HDF and UDF). SKA and LOFAR sky predictions.

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Suzy Jackson

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

Integrated RF systems, RF-CMOS design, signal processing, instrumentation. ATNF Site Epping Room 203A

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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Russell Jurek

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Cosmology, Dark Energy, Clustering, Galaxy evolution, Catalogue matching, Source Detection

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Peter Kamphuis

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Gaseous Halos, Warps, Galaxy formation and evolution

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Michael Keith

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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Baerbel Koribalski

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

galaxies: nearby, formation & evolution, kinematics, star formation; HI surveys: HIPASS, HIZOA, Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS), Wallaby

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

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Erik Lensson

Group: Engineering & Operations(Leader)

Interests:

Operations Engineering

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Adam MacLeod

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

ASKAP Systems Engineer

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Stacy Mader

Group: Astrophysics,Parkes Observatory(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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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: Computing

Interests:

Late-Type Galaxies

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Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Milky Way and Magellanic System interstellar gas and magnetic fields

HomePage: http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/naomi.mcclure-griffiths/

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David McConnell

Group: Engineering & Operations

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: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/David.McConnell/

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Vince McIntyre

Group: Computing

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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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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Chris Phillips

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

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

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John Reynolds

Group: Astrophysics

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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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: Parkes Observatory(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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Nicholas Seymour

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Galaxy Evolution Obscured AGN

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Ryan Shannon

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Radio pulsars

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Timothy Shimwell

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Radio interferometry, Galaxy clusters, Cosmology

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Malcolm Smith

Group: Parkes Observatory(Electronics/Engineering)

Interests:

Remote Sensing, RFI Mitigation, the End of Time

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

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Gina Spratt

Group: Parkes Observatory(Computing)

Interests:

Computing - administration and database management. - CSIRO IT Associate member.

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

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Jamie Stevens

Group: Narrabri Observatory(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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Barry Turner

Group: MRO

Interests:

MRO

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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: Computing

Interests:

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

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Norm Webster

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

Interests:

Antenna Maintenance

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Mark Wieringa

Group: Narrabri Observatory(Computing)

Interests:

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

HomePage: http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/~mwiering/

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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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O. Ivy Wong

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Extragalactic star formation, galaxy evolution and HI surveys

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