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Vanessa Moss joined CASS last month, where her role is focused on
operations for ASKAP and ATCA. Prior to this, she was based at ASTRON
in the Netherlands in the role of observatory astronomer, working with
both the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) and Apertif (a phased-array-feed
upgrade to the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope). She was also the
Head of Apertif Telescope Operations (HATO), in charge of overseeing
the transition of Apertif from commissioning to full operations
starting July 2019. She did her PhD as a co-supervised CASS student
with the University of Sydney, studying the Milky Way as a Galactic
ecosystem of neutral hydrogen infall and outflow, and then a postdoc
as part of ASKAP FLASH (the First Large Absorption Survey in HI)
searching for HI absorption in distant galaxies. She enjoys working on
visualising and analysing complex data and using programming
(especially Python) to improve all aspects of data flow through a
system. On the astronomy research side, she is leading two projects:
SEAFOG, a collaboration between eROSITA and FLASH to study the
connection between X-ray and HI absorption near central black holes of
active galaxies, and SWISH, a project to study the faint diffuse
hydrogen of the Milky Way halo alongside collaborators linking this to
halo metal lines detected in ultraviolet absorption with HST. She is
excited to be working with all of the ATNF facilities and the
telescope data associated with them as part of her new role here at
CASS.
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