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We welcome Marcus Lower, who has joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy as a
Research Plus Postdoc in Marsfield. Marcus recently submitted his PhD
on “Exploring the magnetospheric and rotational properties of radio
pulsars” as a CSIRO Space and Astronomy co-supervised student at
Swinburne University of Technology. His thesis focussed on a variety
of behaviour seen in different kinds of pulsars. This included
characterising rotational irregularities detected in young pulsars,
mapping the magnetic-field geometry of a radio-loud magnetar and
investigating the eclipses seen in a unique “double pulsar” named PSR
J0737-3039A/B. In his new role at CSIRO, Marcus will be analysing the
rotational and spectral properties of over 200 young pulsars that are
monitored by the Parkes radio telescope (also known as “Murriyang”) in
order to improve our understanding of the pulsar emission mechanism
and how these objects may evolve over long timescales. Marcus is
pictured above with the Australia Telescope Compact Array during a
2019 visit to the Paul Wild Observatory in NSW.
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