2025
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Grundy | Nicholas Seymour Curtin University of Technology | Ivy Wong Karen Lee-Waddell | Investigating the Complex Radio Spectra and Infrared-Radio Correlation in Nearby Starforming Galaxies |
| Lachlan Marnoch | Stuart Ryder Richard McDermid Macquarie University | Elizabeth Mahony | Unlocking the secrets of fast radio burst host galaxies with multi-wavelength observations |
| Agastya Kapur (MRes) | Dominic Berry Macquarie University | George Hobbs | Quantum Machine Learning for Identifying Fast Radio Bursts |
| Aditi Kaushik (MRes) | Joanne Dawson Macquarie University | George Hobbs | Probing Tiny-Scale ISM Structure with a New Mode on Parkes |
| Mradumay Sadh (MRes) | Joanne Dawson | George Hobbs | Hydroxyl and Methylidyne Radicals as Tracers of Dark Molecular Gas in a High-Latitude Cloud |
| Xi Shao | Mingfeng Gu Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Philip Edwards | The Study on Radio Properties of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies |
2024
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nina Averill (Mast) | Melrose Brown The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra | George Hobbs Ken Smart | Feasibility of Earth-based radio pulsar navigation with small radio antennas |
|
Elizabeth Cappellazzo
(MRes) | Joanne Dawson Macquarie University | Anita Hafner | Tracing Interactions between HII Regions and their Natal Molecular Clouds |
| Aman Chokshi | Rachel Webster The University of Melbourne | Daniel Mitchell | Unveiling Cosmic Reionisation: Improvements in Understanding Interferometric Systematics |
| Lucas Hoefs (Hons) | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan Curtin University | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan | Exploring Machine Learning Approaches to Interferometric Image Reconstruction & Classifying CRACO Pipeline Candidates |
| Pascal Keller | Bojan Nikolic University of Cambridge, UK | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan | Investigating the Epoch of Cosmic Reionisation with Radio Interferometers |
| Tomonosuke Kikunaga | Keitaro Takahashi Kumamoto University, Japan | George Hobbs | Wideband observation of radio pulsars towards detection of low-frequency gravitational waves |
| Liroy Lourenco | Tara Murphy The University of Sydney | Aaron Chippendale | Radio frequency interference monitoring and mitigation for astronomy with phased array feeds |
| Thomas Riddell (Hons) | Ed Kruzins The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra | Shinji Horiuchi | Space Domain Awareness Automation Processing |
| Manasvee Saraf | Luca Costese The University of Western Australia | Ivy Wong | Constraining the Relationship between Neutral Hydrogen and its Environment using Radio Interferometry |
| Himanshu Tiwari | Cathryn Trott Curtin University | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan | Radio Interferometric Tools to Study the Early Universe |
| Simon Weng | Elaine Sadler The University of Sydney | Elizabeth Mahony | The Distribution of Cool Gas In and Around Galaxies |
| Xuan Yang | Xuefeng Wu University of Science and Technology of China | George Hobbs | Application of Machine Learning in Radio Transients |
2023
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Leung | Tara Murphy The 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 The University of Sydney | George Heald | Searches for Stellar Radio Activity in Circular Polarisation |
| Gary Segal | Geoffrey McLachlan David Parkinson The University of Queensland | Ray Norris | Detecting the unexpected in astronomical data using complexity based approaches |
| Susmita Sett | Ramesh Bhat Marcin Sokolowski 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 The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister | Image-Plane Radio Transients on Short Timescales with ASKAP |
| Ziteng Wang | Tara Murphy, David Kaplan The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister | Exploring the Transient Radio Sky with ASKAP |
|
Asha Wiltshier
(Hons) | Edwin Peters The 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 Miroslav Filipović Luke Barnes 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 The 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, Chris Flynn Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology | Chris Phillips | Pinpointing the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts |
| Mark Edwards (Mast) | Tara Murphy, Michael Wheatland The 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, Ryan Shannon 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 Filipović 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, USA | James Green | Investigating Properties of Multi-Stranded Filament Structures in the Galactic Center |
| Jonathan Rogers | Stanislav Shabala Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | Minh Huynh | The Environments of Radio Sources in the GLASS Survey |
| Jishnu Nambissan Thekkeppattu | Cathryn Trott Ben McKinley 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, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 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 The 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 Stanislav Shabala University of Tasmania | Cormac Reynolds Hayley Bignall | 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 | Xiang Zhang | Advantages and Limitations of using the Murchison Widefield Array for Space Surveillance: a Feasibility Study |
| Hao Qiu | Tara Murphy The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister Ryan Shannon | Detecting Fast Radio Bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder |
| 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, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 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 Richard Hunstead The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister | Radio Follow-up Of Gravitational Wave Events |
| Ahmed Elagali | Ivy Wong The University of Western Australia | Bärbel Koribalski | Studies of Interacting Galaxies & the Environmental Effects on their Evolution |
| Lucas Hyland | Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | James Green | SπRALS : Southern hemisphere parallax interferometric radio astrometry legacy survey |
| Hiroki Kumamoto | Keitaro Takahashi Kumamoto University, Japan | Shi Dai | Observational studies of pulsar for detecting gravitational waves by radio telescope |
| Ali Lalbakhsh | Karu Esselle Muhammad Afzal 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 | Matthew Whiting Lisa Harvey-Smith | From one extreme to another: molecular clouds and star formation throughout the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Peter Macgregor (MRes) | Ray Norris Luke Barnes 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 1 Methanol Masers Towards External Galaxies |
| Aditya Parthasarathy Madapusi | Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology | Simon Johnston | Timing properties across the pulsar population |
| Hao Qiu | Tara Murphy The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister | Detecting Fast Radio Bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder |
| Tristan Reynolds | Lister Staveley-Smith The 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 The 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, Japan | George Hobbs Shi Dai | Study on direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing array |
| Chao Zhang | Jingwen Wu National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences | George Hobbs Chen Wang | Pulsar search with interpretable machine learning |
| Lei Zhang | National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences | George Hobbs | Pulsar Observation and Study with FAST and Parkes Radio Telescope |
| Songbo Zhang | Xuefeng Wu Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lister Staveley-Smith The University of Western Australia | George Hobbs Shi Dai | Single Pulses in the Radio Observation Data Sets |
| Andrew Zic | Tara Murphy Christine Lynch The University of Sydney | George Heald | Cool Stellar Activity at Low Radio Frequencies |
2019
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Butler | Lister Staveley-Smith Anna Kapinska The University of Western Australia | Minh Huynh | Measuring AGN feedback: black hole kinetic luminosity outputs from high and low excitation radio galaxies |
| Kieran Luken (MRes) | Ray Norris Western Sydney University | Ray Norris | An investigation of machine-learning algorithms for the estimation of galaxy redshift |
| Bradley Meyers | Ramesh Bhat Steven Tremblay Curtin University | Stephen Ord Ryan Shannon | Investigating the Links between Radio Pulsar Populations that Display Intermittent Emission Phenomena at Low Frequencies |
| Karlie Noon (Masters) | Naomi McClure-Griffiths Enrico di Teodoro Australian National University | James Green | Distances and Motions of High Velocity Clouds |
| Van Hiep Nguyen | Joanne Dawson Macquarie University | James Green | Shining Light on the Dark Milky Way: Probing our Galaxy’s Hidden Gas |
| Stuart Weston | Sergei Gulyaev Auckland University of Technology | Nicholas Seymour Ray Norris | Astronomical Catalogue Cross Identification for Data Mining and Statistical Analysis of the Infrared and Faint Radio Sky |
Tye Young (MPhil) | Helmut Jerjen Ángel López-Sánchez Australian National University | Bärbel Koribalski | Physical properties of low mass galaxies in the local volume |
2018
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaila Akhter | Maria Cunningham University of New South Wales | 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 Filipović Nicholas Tothill Western Sydney University | Nick Seymour | The Radio Continuum Emission of Star Forming Galaxies at Low to High Redshift |
| Andrew O’Brien | Nicholas Tothill Miroslav Filipović Western Sydney University | Ray Norris | The ATLAS-SPT radio survey of cluster galaxies |
| Daniel Reardon | Yuri Levin Monash University | George Hobbs | Precision radio-frequency pulsar timing and interstellar scintillometry |
| Jesse Swan | Stanislav Shabala Andrew Cole University of Tasmania | 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 Randall Wayth The 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, Italy | Ray Norris | Stellar radio emission in the SKA era: surveys of the galactic plane |
| Marcin Glowacki | Elaine Sadler The University of Sydney | James Allison | Atomic hydrogen in the distant universe with the Australian SKA Pathfinder |
| Claire-Elise Green | Maria Cunningham University of New South Wales | Joanne Dawson | The relationships between filamentary structures, star formation, and magnetic fields in Vela C |
| Katharina Lutz | Virginia Kilborn Barbara Catinella Swinburne University of Technology | Bärbel Koribalski | The HIX Galaxy Survey – How HI eXtreme galaxies maintain their HI reservoir |
| Alessandro Maini | Gabriele Giovannini Isabella Prandoni Università di Bologna Macquarie University | Ray Norris | Modelling the faint radio sky: the pathway to SKA |
| Ross Turner | Stanislav Shabala Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | Josh Marvil | Dynamics and synchrotron emission from radio-loud AGN |
|
Charlotte Ward
(Hons) | Tara Murphy The University of Sydney | Matthew Kerr | Machine-learning for Classification of Pulsar Candidates |
2016
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Collier | Miroslav Filipović Nicholas Tothill Western Sydney University | Ray Norris | The history and evolution of young and distant radio sources |
|
Dougal Dobie
(Hons) | The University of Sydney | Keith Bannister | Detection and analysis of extreme scattering events |
| Dane Kleiner | Kevin Pimbblet D. Heath Jones Monash University | Bärbel Koribalski | The multi-wavelength properties of galaxies embedded in the Cosmic Web |
| Vasaant Krishnan | Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | Shari Breen | 6.7 GHz Maser Astrometry with the Australian Long Baseline Array |
| Ayna Museava | Elaine Sadler Sean Farrell The University of Sydney | Bärbel Koribalski | Intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies |
| Glen Rees | Macquarie University | Ray Norris | Preparing for a cosmological analysis of next generation radio observations |
| Sarah Reeves | The University of Sydney | Bärbel Koribalski | HI emission and absorption-line studies of nearby, gas-rich galaxies |
| Graeme Wong | University of Western Sydney | Shinji Horiuchi | Characterising the structure of molecular clouds |
2015
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Brook | Aris Karastergiou University of Oxford | Simon Johnston | The variability of radio pulsars |
| Shi Dai | Renxin Xu Peking University | George Hobbs | High precision pulsar timing |
| Helga Denes | Virginia Kilborn Swinburne University of Technology | Bärbel Koribalski | A wide-field investigation into the Hı content of galaxies |
| Kosuke Fujii | Norikazu Mizuno The University of Tokyo | Joanne Dawson | Giant molecular cloud formation at the interface of colliding supershells in the large magellanic cloud |
| Raheel Hashmi | Karu Esselle Macquarie University | Stuart Hay | Electromagnetic band gap resonator antennas : from narrowband to extremely wideband |
| Andreas Herzog | Enno Middelberg Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Quentin Parker Macquarie University | Ray Norris | The Broadband Spectra of Infrared-Faint Radio Sources |
| Courtney Jones | University of Tasmania | Joanne Dawson | HI Absorption in the Fourth Galactic Quadrant |
| Christopher Jordan | University of Tasmania | Maxim Voronkov | MALT-45: A 7mm survey of the Southern Galaxy |
| Vanessa Moss | Tara Murphy University of Sydney | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | The Galactic Ecosystem: Outflow and Infall in the Halo of the Milky Way |
| Emily Petroff | Willem van Straten Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology | Simon Johnston | The transient radio sky observed with the Parkes radio telescope |
| Vikram Ravi | Stuart Wyithe University of Melbourne | George Hobbs | Evincing the Histories of the Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Populations with Gravitational Waves |
| Anita Titmarsh (Masters) | Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | Shari Breen | Water maser follow-up of the methanol multibeam survey |
| Marion Wienen | Karl Menten Pavel Kroupa Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Bärbel Koribalski | Temperatures and Distances to High-mass Star-forming Regions in the Inner Galaxy |
| Xingjiang Zhu | David Blair Linqing Wen The University of Western Australia | George Hobbs | Detection of gravitational waves: from nanohertz to the audio band |
2014
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffany Day (Masters) | Macquarie University Mark Wardle | Peter Kamphuis | The Flows of Neutral Hydrogen in the Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M83 |
| Vicki Lowe | Maria Cunningham University of New South Wales | Jill Rathborne James Urquhart | The environment of high-mass star formation : a study of the molecular environment within two giant molecular clouds |
| Nipanjana Patra | Ravi Subrahmanyan Raman Research Institute | Ron Ekers | Precision Measurements of the Radio Background at Long Wavelengths |
| Hayden Rampadarath | Steven Tingay John Morgan Curtin University | Emil Lenc | Applications of High-Frequency Resolution, Wide-Field VLBI: Observations of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies & Habitable Exoplanetary Candidates |
| Kathrin Wolfinger | Virginia Kilborn Emma Ryan-Weber Swinburne University of Technology | Bärbel Koribalski | The effect of environment on the evolution of nearby gas-rich spiral galaxies |
| Rai Yuen | Donald Melrose Michael Wheatland The University of Sydney | Richard Manchester | Pulsar Magnetosphere Revisited : Emission Geometry and the Synthesis of the Vacuum-Dipole and the Rotating-Magnetosphere Models |
| Peter-Christian Zinn | Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar Enno Middelberg Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | Ray Norris | Lighting the universe: Active Galactic Nuclei, Star Formation, and their interplay |
2013
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guillaume Drouart | Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris Carlos De Breuck Joel Vernet European Southern Observatory | Nick Seymour | AGN and star formation history in high redshift radio galaxies |
| Dan Thornton | Ben Stappers University of Manchester | Simon Johnston | The High Time Resolution Radio Sky |
| Xinping Deng | Jianhua Zheng National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing | George Hobbs | Pulsar timing and its application in spacecraft navigation |
| Jay Blanchard | Jim Lovell University of Tasmania | Philip Edwards | Southern hemisphere gamma-ray blazars |
| Justin Bray | Raymond Protheroe University of Adelaide | Ron Ekers | Lunar radio detection of ultra-high-energy particles |
| Jingbo Wang | Na Wang Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS | George Hobbs | Searching for the gravitational wave memory effect in pulsar data sets |
| Catarina Ubach | Sarah Maddison Swinburne University of Technology | Bärbel Koribalski | A Multi-Wavelength study of Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Discs |
| Stefan Oslowski | Matthew Bailes Willem van Straten Swinburne university of Technology | George Hobbs | The highest precision pulsar timing |
| Meng Yu | Renxin Xu Guojun Qiao Peking University | Richard Manchester George Hobbs | Two researches on pulsars |
2012
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajan Chhetri | John Webb University of New South Wales | Ron Ekers | Quasars, radio galaxies and gravitational lenses in the high radio frequency universe |
| Kate Chow (Randall) | Andrew Hopkins The University of Sydney | Ray Norris | The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population |
| Yanett Contreras | Guido Garay Brignardello Diego Mardones Pérez Universidad de Chile | Jill Rathborne | The nature of filamentary structures of dense molecular gas in the galactic plane |
| Andres Guzman | Guido Garay Universidad de Chile | Kate Brooks | Ionized jets and molecular outflows in high-mass young stellar objects |
| Christopher Hales | Bryan Gaensler The University of Sydney Enno Middelberg Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | Ray Norris | Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation |
| Luke Hindson | Mark Thompson University of Hertfordshire | James Urquhart | The G305 star forming complex : a panoramic view of the environment and star formation |
| Minnie Mao | Jim Lovell University of Tasmania | Ray Norris | Cosmic evolution of radio sources in ATLAS |
| Lina Levin | Matthew Bailes Willem van Straten Swinburne University of Technology Michael Kramer, MPIfR Bonn | Simon Johnston | A Search for Radio Pulsars: from Millisecond Pulsars to Magnetars |
2011
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Mahony | Elaine Sadler Scott Croom The University of Sydney | Ron Ekers Ilana Feain | Unveiling the high-frequency radio source population |
| Tye Young (Hons) | Helmet Jerjen Australian National University | Shinji Horiuchi James Green | Mapping interstellar molecular emission lines with the Tidbinbilla 70m radio telescope |
| Sui Ann Mao | Bryan Gaensler The University of Sydney Harvard University | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | Magnetic fields in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds |
| Keith Bannister | Bryan Gaensler Tara Murphy The University of Sydney | Tim Cornwell | Astrophysical radio transients: surveys and techniques |
| Laura Bonavera | Carlo Baccigalupi Gianfranco De Zotti International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) | Ron Ekers | Spectra of extragalactic radio sources after Planck |
| Douglas Hayman | Karu Esselle University of Macquarie | Peter Hall Trevor Bird | Beamforming and evaluation of focal plane arrays for radio astronomy |
| Aquib Moin | Steven Tingay University of Curtin | Chris Phillips | Rapid response monitoring of transient radio emission associated with gamma-ray bursts and Circinus X-1 |
| Daniel Yardley | Bryan Gaensler University of Sydney | George Hobbs | Studying gravitational waves with pulsars: results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array |
| Annie Hughes | Sarah Maddison Swinburne University of Technology | Tony Wong Juergen Ott Lister Staveley-Smith | 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 | Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology | Simon Johnston | Supermassive black hole binaries and transient radio events: studies in pulsar astronomy |
| Joanne Dawson | Yasuo Fukui University of Nagoya | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | 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 | Elaine Sadler University of Sydney | Ron Ekers | The Australia Telescope 20 GHz survey and the search for young radio galaxies |
| Emma Kirby | Helmut Jerjen Australian National University | Bärbel Koribalski | Sharing the baryons: stars and gas in local volume galaxies |
| 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 | Rachel Webster University of Melbourne | Ron Ekers | UHE neutrino detection using the Lunar Čerenkov technique |
| Attila Popping | Thijs (JM) van der Hulst University of Groningen | Robert Braun | Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the local universe |
| Urvashi Rau | David J Raymond University of New Mexico | Tim Cornwall | 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 | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie McCallum | Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania | Jim Lovell | Scintillation in Circinus |
| Katherine Newton-McGee | Anne Green Bryan Gaensler University of Sydney | Ron Ekers Naomi McClure-Griffiths | Radio polarimetry as a probe of interstellar magnetism |
| Leith Godfrey | Geoff Bicknell Australian National University | Jim Lovell David Jauncey | Multiwavelength Studies of X-ray Bright Extragalactic Jets |
| Aaron Chippendale | Anne Green University of Sydney | Ravi Subrahmanyan Michael Kesteven | Detecting cosmological reionization on large scales through the 21-cm HI line |
| Joris Verbiest | Matthew Bailes Swinburne University of Technology | Richard Manchester | 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 | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boris Babic | Keith Jones University of Queensland | Marc Price | Mass distribution in rich clusters of galaxies |
| Hayley Bignall | Roger Clay University of Adelaide | Tasso Tzioumis | Radio variability and interstellar scintillation of blazars |
| Scott Gordon | Keith Jones University of Queensland | Bärbel Koribalski | Radio studies of southern interacting galaxies |
| Melanie Johnston-Hollit | Roger Clay University of Adelaide | Ron Ekers | Detection of magnetic fields and diffuse radio emission in Abell 3667 and other rich Southern clusters of Galaxies |
2002
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Anderson | Miroslav Filipović Graeme White University of Western Sydney John Danziger Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) | Ron Ekers | A radio survey of selected fields from the ROSAT all sky survey |
| Christian Bruens | University of Bonn | The gaseous arms of the Magellanic system and other high-velocity clouds | |
| Maria Hunt | University of Western Sydney | Molecular spectral line observations of Southern Molecular Clouds | |
| Jasmina Lazendic | University of Sydney | Molecular diagnostic of supernova remnant shocks | |
| David Legge | University of Tasmania | Accurate astrometry of Southern Pulsars | |
| Paul Roberts | University of Sydney | Components for wide bandwidth signal processing in radio astronomy | |
| 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 | Rachel Webster University of Melbourne | Lister Staveley-Smith | 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 | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kate Brooks | John Storey University of New South Wales | John Whiteoak | An investigation of the Carina Nebula |
| Mary Putman | Australian National University | Mapping the Galaxy’s neutral hydrogen halo | |
| David Rayner | Peter McCulloch University of Tasmania | Ray Norris Bob Sault | Circular polarization of active galaxies |
| Jagmit Sandhu | Shri R. Kulkarni California Institute of Technology | High precision dual frequency timing of millisecond pulsars | |
| Niven Tasker | University of Macquarie | Identifications from the PMN Southern Survey |
1999
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Abbott | University of Sydney | Correcting atmospheric distortion in short-wavelength radio observations from tropospheric water-vapour soundings | |
| Richard Gooch | David Skellern Macquarie University | Ray Norris | A Visual Analysis Environment for Astronomical Data |
| Bryan Gaensler | Anne Green University of Sydney | Richard Manchester | Barrels, Jets and Smoke-rings: Understanding the Bizarre Shapes of Radio Supernova Remnants |
1998
| Student | University Supervisor | CSIRO co-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 | CSIRO co-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 | Ron Ekers | The far infrared to radio continuum correlation for nearby 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 | CSIRO co-supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Roy Duncan |
Keith Jones
University of Queensland | Ron Stewart | Large-scale radio structure in the Southern galaxy at 2.4GHz |
| Simon Ellingsen |
Peter McCulloch
University of Tasmania | Ray Norris | Class II Methanol Masers in Star Formation Regions |
| Miroslav Filipovic |
Graeme L White
University of Western Sydney | Raymond Haynes | A Multi-Frequency Investigation of Discrete Sources in the Magellanic Clouds |
| Steven Tingay |
Geoffrey Bicknell
Australian National University | David Jauncey | 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 | Richard 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 | Ron Ekers | 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 | CSIRO co-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 | Ron Ekers | 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 |