Research Interests of Staff of the ATNF

Shaun Amy

Group: Computing

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:77b

Lewis Ball

Group: Directors Office

Interests:

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

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:8

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.

ATNF Site:Epping Room:75

Brian Boyle

Group: Directors Office(Director)

Interests:

Cosmology, Quasars, Large-Scale structure, Extragalactic Surveys

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:a209

Kate Brooks

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Massive star formation, millimetre and infrared observations

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:99

Kate Brooks

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Massive star formation, millimetre and infrared observations

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:99

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:85

Jim Caswell

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Supernova remnants, their evolution, and their interaction with the interstellar medium. 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. Masers (hydroxyl, water and silicon monoxide) in late-type stars. Structure, dynamics and magnetic field of our Galaxy. Radio telescope development, especially spectral line capabilities and interferometer arrays.

ATNF Site:Epping Room:95

Jessica Chapman

Group: Astrophysics,National Facility Support

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. High resolution optical spectroscopy. Megamasers.

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:8

Aaron Chippendale

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

Epoch of reionisation; SKA system studies; signal processing; digital signal processing; FPGAs; MMIC design; RF systems; RF interference monitoring; cosmology.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Aaron.Chippendale

ATNF Site:Epping Room:201

Tim Cornwell

Group: Computing

Interests:

xNTD project Radio Interferometry, Radio Telescope Design, Image Processing, Scientific Computing

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Tim.Cornwell

ATNF Site:Epping Room:89

Michael Dahlem

Group: Narrabri Observatory

Interests:

Normal and starburst galaxies, effects of massive star formation on the ambient medium, disk-halo interactions, gaseous halos as a natural part of the interstellar medium in actively star-forming galaxies, multi-wavelength observations.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Michael.Dahlem/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:

Neil Derwent

Group: Research Support(Administration)

Interests:

Meet with OIC, DOIC & Admin Officer

ATNF Site:Epping Room:10b

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:200

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:212b

Russell Gough

Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:67b

Peter Hall

Group: Astrophysics,Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

Next-generation telescope design; multi-beaming antennas; high-bandwidth signal transfer; integrated RF systems; interference mitigation.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Peter.Hall/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:20c

George Hobbs

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Pulsars, Astrometry, Computing

ATNF Site:Epping Room:87b

Robert Hollow

Group: National Facility Support

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:33

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.

ATNF Site:Epping Room:96a

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:203a

Dave Jauncey

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

VLBI and Space VLBI, Active Galactic Nuclei and quasars, Intra-day Variables, Interstellar scintillation, Gravitational Lenses and GL Surveys, Cosmology, Astrometry and Geodynamics.

ATNF Site:Epping Room:jauncey office

Simon Johnston

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Pulsars, Supernova remnants, polarization, New Technology Demonstrator

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:98

Mike Kesteven

Group: Astrophysics,Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

Supernova remnants, Antenna metrology, Radio interferometry.

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:

Neil Killeen

Group: Astrophysics,Computing

Interests:

Extragalactic astronomy, specifically radio galaxies, radio jets, stellar dynamics, megamasers, interstellar medium. Galactic Centre. Radio astronomical techniques. Zeeman Effect.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Neil.Killeen/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:89

Bärbel Koribalski

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Extragalactic astronomy HI gas dynamics of nearby galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, Parkes multibeam HI surveys (HIPASS, Zone-of-Avoidance), millimetre interferometry; Galactic astronomy continuum studies of massive stars and proplyds, HI absorption measurements against pulsars

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:91a

Diana Londish

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

AGN/BL Lacs

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Diana.Londish/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:92

Jim Lovell

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Gravitational Lensing - Searching for southern hemisphere gravitational lenses; - Observing the Einstein ring PKS 1830-211. Active Galactc Nuclei - The VSOP AGN Survey; - AGN variability; - VLBI and Space-VLBI observations of GPS sources; - Intra-Day Variable radio sources.

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Jim.Lovell/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:

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; Parkes HIPASS/ZOA Multibeam Surveys; Radio recombination-lines.

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

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:opera hse off

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:87a

Malte Marquarding

Group: Computing

Interests:

Late-Type Galaxies

ATNF Site:Epping Room:99

Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

Interstellar medium (ISM) structure, dynamics, and thermal phases; Neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Milky Way; Galactic structure; HI shells and supershells; interaction of massive stars with the IS;, supernova remnants and their interaction with the ISM; HI self absorption; Galactic magnetic field and magneto-ionic medium; Mosaicing; Short-spacings correction; HI spectroscopy

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:83

Dave McConnell

Group: Astrophysics

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:12b

Vince McIntyre

Group: Computing

Interests:

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

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:81a

Erik Muller

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

HI, Interacting galaxy structures, HVCs.

ATNF Site:Epping Room:84

Ray Norris

Group: Directors Office

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:203a

Chris Phillips

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:206b

John Reynolds

Group: Astrophysics,National Facility Support(LBA Operations)

Interests:

Interferometry Techniques. Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Gravitational Lenses. Reference Frames. Astrometry. Stellar radio astronomy.

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:oic

Roberto Ricci

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

High-frequency radio sources; extragalactic discrete radio source foreground to the CMB radiation; polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources; data reduction and analysis of the Australia Telescope 20GHz survey (AT20G).

HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/roberto.ricci

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:

Paul Roberts

Group:

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:210

Paul Roberts

Group:

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:210

John Sarkissian

Group: Parkes Observatory(Operations)

Interests:

Member of a small team searching for Extra-Solar Radio Planets. Member of several pulsar teams involved in the precision timing and discovery of millisecond pulsars. Support other pulsar observations as well as the Multibeam HIPASS/ZOA surveys. Involved in the characterisation of RFI at the various ATNF and related sites.

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

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:tram office #3

Gary Scott

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

LBA correlator operator

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:

Malcolm Smith

Group: Parkes Observatory(Electronics/Engineering)

Interests:

RFI Mitigation, Radiometer techniques, Remote Sensing

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

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:opera hse off

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

ATNF Site:Parkes Room:opera hse off

Michelle Storey

Group: Astrophysics

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:33

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/

ATNF Site:Epping Room:83

Maxim Voronkov

Group: Narrabri Observatory

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:92

Norm Webster

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

Interests:

Antenna Maintenance

ATNF Site:Epping Room:a209

Mark Wieringa

Group: Astrophysics,Narrabri Observatory

Interests:

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

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

ATNF Site:Narrabri Room:nbri

Warwick Wilson

Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)

Interests:

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

ATNF Site:Epping Room:205