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Samuel Lai recently joined CSIRO Space & Astronomy at Kensington as a
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Fellow to work on novel and
independent Very Long Baseline Interferometry image reconstruction
techniques. He earned his PhD in the Research School of Astronomy &
Astrophysics at Australian National University working with
A/Prof Christian Wolf and Dr Christopher Onken on high-redshift
ultraluminous quasars. Prior to the PhD, Samuel worked at Gemini
Observatory North in Hawaii studying rare cases of white dwarfs
accreting from tidally disrupted planetesimals. At CSIRO, he will use
his experience on black hole accretion disc magnetohydrodynamic
simulations to produce realistic fiducial images to test and train
novel image reconstruction algorithms.
The image above shows Samuel outside the
Gemini Observatory on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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