Space and Astronomy Graduate Student Program: former students

2024

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Elizabeth Cappellazzo (MRes)	Joanne Dawson Macquarie University	Anita Hafner	Tracing Interactions between HII Regions and their Natal Molecular Clouds

2023

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
James Leung	Tara Murphy University of Sydney	Emil Lenc	A Multi-scale Radio Study of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows
Saurav Mishra (MRes)	Joanne Dawson Macquarie University	George Hobbs	Hunt for millisecond pulsars around the sky region of OJ287 - a supermassive black hole binary
Joshua Pritchard	Tara Murphy University of Sydney	George Heald	Searches for Stellar Radio Activity in Circular Polarisation
Gary Segal	David Parkinson University of Queensland	Ray Norris	Detecting the unexpected in astronomical data using complexity based approaches
Susmita Sett	Ramesh Bhat Curtin University	Emil Lenc	Exploring the Southern Pulsar Population in image domain with the Murchison Widefield Array
Renzhi Su	Minfeng Gu, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Elaine Sadler	The Observational Studies on HI 21-cm absorption
Yuanming Wang	Tara Murphy, Elaine Sadler University of Sydney	Keith Bannister	Image-Plane Radio Transients on Short Timescales with ASKAP
Ziteng Wang	Tara Murphy, David Kaplan University of Sydney	Keith Bannister	Exploring the Transient Radio Sky with ASKAP
Asha Wiltshier (Hons)	Edwin Peters University of New South Wales, Canberra	Shinji Horiuchi	Space Domain Awareness Automation Processing: Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Program
Miranda Yew	Evan Crawford Western Sydney University	Ray Norris	Classification and Alignment of DRAGNs

2022

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Albany Asher (MRes)	Ray Norris, David Parkinson Western Sydney University	Nithyanandan Thyagarajan	A Novel Approach to Relativistic Ray-Tracing Technique in N-body Simulations
Daniele d'Antonio	Martin Bell University of Technology Sydney	Vanessa Moss	Radio afterglows of Gravitational Waves
Samuel Darwell (Hons)	Edwin Peters University of New South Wales (Canberra)	Shinji Horiuchi	Polarimetric and Spectral Analysis of New-Earth Asteroids Observed by the Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Program
Cherie Day	Adam Deller Swinburne University of Technology	Chris Phillips	Pinpointing the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts
Mark Edwards (Mast)	Tara Murphy, Michael Wheatland University of Sydney	Emil Lenc	A volume-limited survey for radio-loud M-dwarfs with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
Marcus Lower	Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology	Simon Johnston	Exploring the magnetospheric and rotational properties of radio pulsars
Rami Mandow (MRes)	Joanne Dawson Macquarie University	Andrew Zic	Evaluating New Millisecond Pulsars from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Observing Program
Perica Manojlovic	Miroslav Filipovic Western Sydney University	Ray Norris	Searching for Clusters with Large ASKAP and ATCA Radio Surveys
Shannon Melrose	Lisa Harvey-Smith, Maria Cunningham University of New South Wales	Matthew Whiting	A column density probability distribution function analysis of the Vela Molecular Ridge Cloud C and G333 giant molecular clouds
Chikaedu Ogbodo	Joanne Dawson Macquarie University	James Green Shari Breen	Mapping the Galactic Magnetic Field with OH Masers
Dylan Pare	Cornelia C Lang University of Iowa	James Green	Investigating Properties of Multi-Stranded Filament Structures in the Galactic Center
Jonathan Rogers	Stanislav Shabala University of Tasmania	Minh Huynh	The Environments of Radio Sources in the GLASS Survey
Jishnu Nambissan Thekkeppattu	Cathryn Trott Curtin University	Aaron Chippendale	Towards Detection of Redshifted 21-cm Signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation

2021

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Yi Feng	Di Li National Astronomical Observatory, CAS	George Hobbs	Detecting Gravitational Waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays
Dilpreet Kaur	Ramesh Bhat Curtin University	Shi Dai	Probing the Interstellar Medium toward Timing Array Millisecond Pulsars with the Murchison Widefield Array
Emily Kerrison (Hons)	Elaine Sadler University of Sydney	Vanessa Moss	Probing the gaseous environment of Active Galactic Nuclei through radio and X-ray absorption
Noor Masdiana Md Said	Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania	Cormac Reynolds	Intraday Variability of Active Galaxies
Blake Molyneux (Hons)	Salman Durrani Australian National University	Shinji Horiuchi	Characterizing Near Earth Asteroids using the Southern Hemisphere’s novel Planetary Radar System
Steve Raj Prabu	Paul Hancock, Steven Tingay Curtin University of Technology	Xiang Zhang	Advantages and Limitations of using the Murchison Widefield Array for Space Surveillance: a Feasibility Study
Abhimanyu Susobhanan	Achamveedu Gopakumar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India	George Hobbs	Perspectives in Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Brandon Venville (Hons)	Virginia Kilborn Swinburne University of Technology	Elizabeth Mahony	Investigating The Gaseous Nature Of Young Radio Galaxies
Shaungqiang Wang	Na Wang, Jingbo Wang Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS	George Hobbs	Emission variation study of radio pulsars

2020

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Tayla Dahms (Hons)	Mohan Jacob James Cook University	Stephanie Smith	Investigation of Circular Waveguide Feed Bowl for Lens Antenna
Dougal Dobie	Tara Murphy University of Sydney	Keith Bannister	Radio Follow-up Of Gravitational Wave Events
Ahmed Elagali	Ivy Wong University of Western Australia	Baerbel Koribalski	Studies of Interacting Galaxies & the Environmental Effects on their Evolution
Lucas Hyland	Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania	James Green	SpiRALS - Southern Hemisphere Parallax Interferometric Radio Astrometry Legacy Survey
Hiroki Kumamoto	Keitaro Takahashi Kumamoto University	Shi Dai	The observational studies of pulsars for detecting gravitational waves by radio telescopes
Ali Lalbakhsh	Karu P Esselle Macquarie University	Stephanie Smith	All-dielectric near-field transforming structures to dielectric-less metasurfaces for high gain antenna systems
John Lopez	Maria Cunningham University of New South Wales	Lisa Harvey-Smith Matthew Whiting	From one extreme to another: molecular clouds and star formation throughout the Milky Way Galaxy
Peter Macgregor (MRes)	Ray Norris Western Sydney University	Matthew Whiting	An Investigation of the Diffuse Radio Emission in the Galaxy Cluster Abell S1136
Lachlan Marnoch (MRes)	Stuart Ryder Macquarie University	Elaine Sadler	The host galaxies and possible progenitors of fast radio bursts
Tommy Marshman (MRes)	Joanne Dawson Macquarie University	Shi Dai	Finding pulsars in a new SETI survey with a GPU based pipeline
Tiege McCarthy	Simon Ellingson University of Tasmania	Maxim Voronkov	Class I methanol masers toward external galaxies
Aditya Parthasarathy Madapusi	Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology	Simon Johnston	Timing properties across the pulsar population
Hao Qiu	Tara Murphy University of Sydney	Keith Bannister	Detecting Fast Radio Bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
Tristan Reynolds	Lister Staveley-Smith University of Western Australia	Jamie Stevens	The Effect of the Environment on the Neutral Hydrogen Content of Galaxies
Simon Weng (Hons)	Caroline Foster, Tara Murphy University of Sydney	Elaine Sadler	Intergalactic Tug-of-War: An HI-selected galaxy group at redshift z=0.45
Naoyuki Yonemaru	Keitaro Takahashi Kumamoto University	George Hobbs Shi Dai	Study on direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing array
Chao Zhang	Jingwen Wu National Astronomical Observatory, CAS	George Hobbs Chen Wang	Pulsar search with interpretable machine learning
Lei Zhang	National Astronomical Observatory, CAS		Pulsar Observation and Study with FAST and Parkes Radio Telescope
Songbo Zhang	Xuefeng Wu, Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS Lister Staveley-Smith, University of Western Australia	George Hobbs Shi Dai	Single Pulses in the Radio Observation Data Sets
Andrew Zic	Tara Murphy, Christine Lynch University of Sydney	George Heald	Cool Stellar Activity at Low Radio Frequencies

2019

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Wayne Arcus	Curtin University	Fast Radio Bursts as Cosmic Probes
Kieran Luken (MRes)	University of Western Sydney	An investigation of machine-learning algorithms for the estimation of galaxy redshift
Bradley Meyers	Curtin University	Investigating the links between radio pulsar populations that display intermittent emission phenomena at low frequencies
Karlie Noon	Australian National University	Distances and motions of high velocity clouds
Stuart Weston	Auckland University of Technology	Astronomical catalogue cross identification for data mining and statistical analysis of the infrared and faint radio sky

2018

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Shaila Akhter	University of New South Wales Maria Cunningham	Lisa Harvey-Smith	A tale of high-mass star formation and its relationship to Galactic structure: A multimolecular line study from HOPS survey
Shivani Bhandari	Matthew Bailes, Chris Flynn, Swinburne University of Technology	Keith Bannister	A study of slow and fast radio transients
Timothy Galvin	Miroslav Filipovic, Nicholas Tothill The University of Western Sydney	Nick Seymour	The Radio Continuum Emission of Star Forming Galaxies at Low to High Redshift
Andrew O'Brien	Nicholas Tothill, Miroslav Filipovic The University of Western Sydney	Ray Norris	ATCA-SPT: A survey of 100 square degrees of the southern sky
Daniel Reardon	Yuri Levin Monash University	George Hobbs	Precision radio-frequency pulsar timing and interstellar scintillometry
Jesse Swan	Stanislav Shabala University of Tasmania	Amy Kimball Ray Norris	Multi-frequency Matching, Classification, and Cosmic Evolution of Radio Galaxy Populations

2017

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Joseph Callingham	Bryan Gaensler, Elaine Sadler University of Sydney	Ron Ekers	The extragalactic sky at low radio frequencies: A study of peaked-spectrum sources
Francesco Cavallaro	Francesco Leone, Corrado Trigilio University of Catania	Ray Norris	Stellar radio emission in the SKA era: surveys of the galactic plane
Marcin Glowacki	Elaine Sadler University of Sydney	James Allison	Atomic hydrogen in the distant universe with the Australian SKA Pathfinder
Claire-Elise Green	University of New South Wales		Milky Way dynamics and structure
Katharina Lutz	Swinburne University of Technology		The HIX Galaxy Survey - How HI eXtreme galaxies maintain their HI reservoir
Ross Turner	University of Tasmania		Dynamics and synchrotron emission from radio-loud AGN

2016

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Vasaant Krishnan	University of Tasmania	6.7 GHz Maser astrometry with the Australian Long Baseline Array
Dane Kleiner	Monash University	The multi-wavelength properties of galaxies embedded in the cosmic web
Jordan Collier	University of Western Sydney	The history and evolution of young and distant radio sources
Dougal Dobie (Hons)	University of Sydney	Detection and analysis of extreme scattering events
Andreas Herzog	Macquarie University/Ruhr-Universität Bochum	The broadband spectra of infrared-faint radio sources
Alessandro Maini	University of Bologna/Macquarie University	Modelling the faint radio sky: the pathway to SKA
Aina Museava	University of Sydney	Intermediate mass black holes in dwarf galaxies
Glen Rees	Macquarie University	Cosmology using next generation radio telescopes
Sarah Reeves	University of Sydney	HI emission and absorption-line studies of nearby, gas-rich galaxies
Charlotte Ward	University of Sydney	Machine-learning for classification of pulsar candidates
Marion Wienen	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Germany	Temperatures and distances to high-mass star-forming regions in the Inner Galaxy
Graeme Wong	University of Western Sydney	Characterising the structure of molecular clouds
Tye Young	Australian National University	Multi-wavelength properties of dwarf galaxies in the local volume

2015

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Paul Brook	University of Oxford	Variability in pulsars
Shi Dai	Peking University	High precision pulsar timing
Kosuke Fujii	The University of Tokyo	Giant Molecular Cloud Formation at the Interface of Colliding Supershells in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Raheel Hashmi	Macquarie University	Electromagnetic band gap resonator antennas: from narrowband to extremely wideband
Andreas Herzog	Ruhr University Bochum	The broad-band spectra of infrared-faint radio sources
Courtney Jones	University of Tasmania	HI Absorption in the Fourth Galactic Quadrant
Christopher Jordan	University of Tasmania	MALT-45: A 7mm survey of the Southern Galaxy
Emily Petroff	Swinburne University of Technology	Study of the interstellar medium through radio phenomena of short duration
Vikram Ravi	University of Melbourne	Evincing the histories of the cosmic supermassive black hole and galaxy populations with gravitational waves
Anita Titmarsh	University of Tasmania	Investigating the earliest stages of high-mass star formation
Xingjiang Zhu	University of Western Australia	Searching for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes pulsar timing array data sets

2014

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Tiffany Day	Macquarie University	The flows of neutral hydrogen in the grand design spiral galaxy M83
Helga Denes	Swinburne University of Technology	A wide-field investigation into the H I content of galaxies
Peter-Christian Zinn	Ruhr-Universitat Bochum	New avenues in galaxy evolution studies: large-scale magnetic fields and properties of high-redshift radio emitters
Hayden Rampadarath	Curtin University	Applications of high-frequency resolution, wide-field VLBI: observations of nearby star-forming galaxies & habitable exoplanetary candidates
Vicki Lowe	University of New South Wales	The environment of high-mass star formation: a study of the molecular environment within two giant molecular clouds
Kathrin Wolfinger	Swinburne University of Technology	The effect of environment on the evolution of nearby gas-rich spiral galaxies
Vanessa Moss	University of Sydney	The Galactic ecosystem: outflow and infall in the halo of the Milky Way
Nipanjana Patra	Raman Research Institute	Precision measurements of the radio background at long wavelengths
Rai Yuen	University of Sydney	Pulsar magnetosphere revisited: emission geometry and the synthesis of the vacuum-dipole and the rotating-magnetorsphere models

2013

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Guillaume Drouart	European Southern Observatory	AGN and star formation history in high redshift powerful radio galaxies
Christopher Hales	University of Sydney	Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation
Dan Thornton	Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics	Pulsar and transient searching with GPUs
Xinping Deng	National Space Science Center, Beijing, CAS	Pulsar timing and its application in spacecraft navigation
Jay Blanchard	University of Tasmania	Linking the radio and gamma-ray properties of blazars
Justin Bray	University of Adelaide	Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and their detection with the lunar Cherenkov technique
Jingbo Wang	Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS	Searching for the gravitational wave memory effect in pulsar data sets
Catarina Ubach	Swinburne University of Technology	A multi-wavelength study of grain growth in protoplanetary discs
Stefan Oslowski	Swinburne university of Technology	The highest precision pulsar timing
Meng Yu	Peking University	Two researches on pulsars

2012

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Chris Hales	University of Sydney	Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation
Yanett Contreras	University of Chile	The nature of filamentary structures of dense molecular gas in the Galactic Plane
Lina Levin Preston	Swinburne University of Technology	A search for radio pulsars: from millisecond pulsars to magnetars
Rajan Chhetri	University of New South Wales	Quasars, radio galaxies and gravitational lenses in the high radio frequency universe
Luke Hindson	University of Hertfordshire	The G305 star forming complex: a panoramic view of the environment and star formation
Minnie Mao	University of Tasmania	Cosmic evolution of radio sources in ATLAS
Kate Chow (nee Randall)	University of Sydney	The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population
Andres Guzman	University of Chile	Ionized jets and molecular outflows in high-mass young stellar objects

2011

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Elizabeth Mahony	University of Sydney	Unveiling the high-frequency radio source population
Tye Young	Australian National University	Mapping interstellar molecular emission lines with the Tidbinbilla 70m radio telescope (honours thesis)
Sui-Ann Mao	Harvard University	Magnetic fields in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds
Keith Bannister	University of Sydney	Astrophysical Radio Transients: surveys and techniques
Laura Bonavera	SISSA	Spectra of extragalactic radio sources after Planck
Doug Hayman	University of Macquarie	Beamforming and evaluation of focal plane arrays for radio astronomy
Aquib Moin	University of Curtin	e-VLBI science with LBA. Exploring science applications for the long baseline component of ASKAP
Daniel Yardley	University of Sydney	Studying gravitational waves with pulsars: results from the Parkes pulsar timing array
Annie Hughes	Swinburne University of Technology	Molecular gas in the large magellanic cloud

2010

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Shari Breen	Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania	James Caswell	Interstellar Masers as Evolutionary Tracers of High-Mass Star Formation
Sarah Burke-Spolaor	Swinburne University of Technology		Supermassive black hole binaries and transient radio events: studies in pulsar astronomy
Joanne Dawson	University of Nagoya		Supershells as molecular cloud factories in the evolving ISM: observations of HI and 12CO in the Galactic supershells GSH 287+04-17 and GSH 277+00+36
H. Alyson Ford	Brad Gibson Swinburne University of Technology	Naomi McClure-Griffiths	The HI Cloud Population in the Lower Halo of the Milky Way
Paul Hancock	University of Sydney		The Australia Telescope 20 GHz survey and the search for young radio galaxies
Emma Kirby	Australian National University		Turning the time arrow: an evolutinary history of the local universe
Deanna Matthews	Peter L Dyson La Trobe University	Lister Staveley-Smith	The Magellanic Stream South of 0 Degrees Declination - A High-Resolution ATCA and Parkes HI Investigation
Rebecca McFadden	University of Melbourne		UHE neutrino detection using the Lunar Cerenkov technique
Attila Popping	Thijs (JM) van der Hulst University of Groningen	Robert Braun	Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the local universe
Urvashi Rau	University of New Mexico		Parameterized deconvolution for wide-band radio synthesis imaging
Natasa Vranesevic	Donald Melrose University of Sydney	Richard Manchester	Galactic Distribution and Evolution of Pulsars

2009

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Jamie McCallum	University of Tasmania	Scintillation in Circinus
Katherine Newton-McGee	University of Sydney	Radio polarimetry as a probe of interstellar magnetism
Leith Godfrey	Australian National University	Dynamics of large-scale extragalactic jets: a multi-wavelength study of X-ray bright jets
Aaron Chippendale	University of Sydney	Detecting cosmological reionization on large scales through the 21-cm HI line
Joris Verbiest	Swinburne University of Technology	Long-term timing of millisecond pulsars and gravitational wave detection
Nadia Lo	University of New South Wales	A multi-molecular line study of an entire giant molecular cloud
Emil Lenc	Swinburne University of Technology	Studies of radio galaxies and starburst galaxies using wide-field, high spatial resolution radio imaging
Adam Deller	Swinburne University of Technology	Precision VLBI astrometry: instrumentation, algorithms and pulsar parallax determinations

2008

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Marcella Massardi	SISSA	The extragalactic sources at mm wavelengths and their role as CMB foregrounds
Martin Leung	University of Sydney	A wideband feed for a cylindrical radio telescope
Janine van Eymeren	Bochum University	Gas kinematics in the haloes of nearby irregular dwarf galaxies
Vicky Safouris	Australian National University	Environmental influence on the evolution of jets from Active Galactic Nuclei

2007

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Xiaopeng You	Chinese Academy of Sciences	The propagation of pulse signals in interstellar medium and their effect on the detection of gravitational waves
Ivy Wong	University of Melbourne	Star formation and galaxy evolution of the local universe based on HIPASS
Steven Longmore	University of New South Wales	The cradle of galactic superpowers - studying the natal environment of massive stars
Jess O'Brien	Australian National University	Probing the shape of dark halos of thin edge-on disk galaxies
Haydon Knight	Swinburne University of Technology	Pulsar applications of baseband recording

2006

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Rachel Deacon	University of Sydney	Magnetic fields and companion stars: behind the shaping of planetary nebulae
Sebastian Gurovich	Australian National University	An observational study of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation
Antoine Bouchard	Australian National University	The interstellar medium and evolution of dwarf galaxies in nearby galaxy groups
Ilana Feain	University of Sydney	Active galaxies at high redshift: gas, jets and star formation
Aidan Hotan	Swinburne University of Technology	High-precision observations of relativistic binary and millisecond pulsars

2005

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Jamie Stevens	University of Melbourne	Neutral hydrogen in galaxy groups
Meryl Waugh	University of Melbourne	Neutral hydrogen in Fornax and Eridanus - blind basketweaving for beginners
Bradley Warren	Australian National University	The nature of high HI mass-to-light radio field galaxies

2004

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Erik Muller	University of Wollongong	High resolution studies of the HI in the Western magellanic bridge
Daniel Mitchell	University of Sydney	Interference mitigation in radio astronomy
Catherine Buchanan	Australian National University	Radio-excess IRAS galaxies
Gianni Bernardi	University of Bologna	Diffuse galactic polarised synchrotron radiation as foreground for CMB experiments
Roberto Ricci	University of Trieste	High frequency properties of extragalactic sources
Minh Huynh	Australian National University	Constraining the star formation history of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South region with sensitive radio data
Emma Ryan-Weber	University of Melbourne	Neutral hydrogen in galaxies and the intergalactic medium

2003

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Hayley Bignall	University of Adelaide	Radio variability and interstellar scintillation of blazars
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt	University of Adelaide	Detection of magnetic fields and diffuse radio emission in Abell 3667 and other rich Southern clusters of Galaxies
Martin Anderson	University of Western Sydney	A radio survey of selected fields from the ROSAT all sky survey
Boris Babic	University of Queensland	Mass distribution in rich clusters of galaxies
Scott Gordon	University of Queensland	Radio studies of Southern interacting galaxies
Paul Roberts	University of Sydney	Components for wide bandwidth signal processing in radio astronomy

2002

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Jasmina Lazendic	University of Sydney	Molecular diagnostic of supernova remnant shocks
Christian Bruens	University of Bonn	The gaseous arms of the Magellanic system and other high-velocity clouds
David Legge	University of Tasmania	Accurate astrometry of Southern Pulsars
Maria Hunt	University of Western Sydney	Molecular spectral line observations of Southern Molecular Clouds
Vivienne Wheaton	University of Sydney	Hydrodynamical models and an investigation into radio emission from SNR 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

2001

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Sebastian Juraszek	University of Sydney		A study of galaxies behind the milky way
Virginia Kilborn	University of Melbourne		The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the local universe
Robert Minchin	University of Wales, Cardiff		Properties of galaxies in a deep blind neutral hydrogen survey
Thu Hoang Ngoc	University of New South Wales		Where is the Eye of the Tornado Nebula?
Ruisheng Peng	University of New South Wales		Southern molecular clouds at CH3OH 20r3-1E transition
Daniel Sheppard	Andrew Lyne University of Manchester	Richard Manchester
Nina Wang	Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, China		Pulsar timing and scintillation studies

2000

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Kate Brooks	University of New South Wales	An investigation of the Carina Nebula
Mary Putman	Australian National University	Mapping the Galaxy's neutral hydrogen halo
David Rayner	University of Tasmania	Circular polarisation of active galaxies
Jagmit Sandhu	Caltech	High precision timing of millisecond pulsars
Niven Tasker	University of Macquarie	Identifications from the PMN Southern Survey

1999

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
David Abbott	University of Sydney	Correcting atmospheric distortion in short-wavelength radio observations from tropospheric water-vapour soundings
Richard Gooch	University of Sydney	Advanced visualisation techniques to handle astronomical data cubes and images
Bryan Gaensler	University of Sydney	Barrels, jets and smoke-rings: understanding the bizarre shapes of radio supernova remnants

1998

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Gareth Banks	University of Wales	21cm blind searches for galaxies
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer	University of Sydney	The study of intraday variability of extragalactic compact radio sources
Alan McPhail	University of Macquarie	Non-linear iterative image reconstruction techniques for images with well known point-spread function
Snezana Stanimirovic	University of Western Sydney	Complex nature of the ISM in the SMC
Marc Elmouttie	University of Queensland	A multi-frequency investigation of the nuclear activity in the Circinus galaxy
Mark Bransford	University of Melbourne	Star formation in collisional ring galaxies and the circumnuclear regions of active galactic nuclei
Sungeun Kim	Australian National University	An HI aperture synthesis mosaic and Halpha survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud
David Barnes	University of Melbourne	Neutral hydrogen in the nearby universe
Chris Phillips	University of Tasmania	Class II Methanol masers and their environment at high resolution
Edward King	University of Tasmania	Compact structure in Southern Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources
Derek McKay	University of New South Wales	Pointing-techniques for radio telescopes
Sally Houghton	University of New South Wales	A study of some southern spirals: Goldilocks and the Three Bars
Isabella Prandoni	Bologna	ATESP survey

1997

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Jim Lovell	University of Tasmania	Southern radio gravitational lens survey and observations
Wilfred Walsh	University of New South Wales	Studies of dwarf galaxies and missing dark matter
Brett Wells	Australian National University	FIR-Radio continuum correlation in star-forming galaxies
Ben Stappers	Australian National University	Observations of eclipsing and binary pulsars
Thomas Tauris	Aarhus University	Formation and evolution of binary millisecond pulsars

1996

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
A. Roy Duncan	University of Queensland	Large-scale radio structure in the Southern galaxy at 2.4GHz
Simon Ellingsen	University of Tasmania	Class II Methanol masers in star formation regions
Miroslav Filipovic	University of Western Sydney	A multi-frequency investigation of discrete sources in the Magellanic Clouds
Steven Tingay	Australian National University	Parsec and Sub-Parsec-Scale Structure and Evolution in Nearby Compact Radio Sources and Relationships to Emission at other Wavelengths

1995

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Jonathon Bell	Australian National University	Dick Manchester	Binary and millisecond radio pulsars
Matthias Ehle	University of Bonn		Characteristics of the diffuse interstellar medium of the nearby galaxies M51, M83, and NGC 1566 - based on X-ray and radiocontinuum observations
Haida Liang	Australian National University		Distribution of matter in clusters of galaxies
Martin Ott	University of Bonn, Germany		Atomic and molecular gas in the starburst galaxy NGC 4945

1994

Student	University Supervisor	Project title
Alan Roy	University of Sydney	Active galaxy unification: radio and far-infrared studies
Clive Robinson	University of Manchester	Pulsars and globular clusters
Duncan Lorimer	University of Manchester	The galactic population of millisecond and normal pulsars
Andrew Gray	University of Sydney	Radio observations of sources near the galactic centre

1993

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Vicki Kaspi	Princeton University		Applications of pulsar timing

1990

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Simon Johnston	University of Manchester		A high frequency survey of the southern galactic plane for pulsars

1989

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Matthew Bailes	Australian National University		The origin of pulsar velocities
Norbert Junkes	University of Bonn		CO-Shells, HI-Holes and Protostars. Evolution of supernova remnants in the interstellar medium

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