2025

2024

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Nina Averill (Mast)	Melrose Brown University of New South Wales, Canberra, ADFA	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 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 University of New South Wales, 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	David Parkinson The 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 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  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, 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 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, USA	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, 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 The University of Sydney	Keith Bannister	Radio Follow-up Of Gravitational Wave Events
Ahmed Elagali	Ivy Wong The 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, Japan	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 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		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 Curtin University	Stephen Ord	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

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 Filipovic, Nicholas Tothill Western Sydney University	Nickolas Seymour	The Radio Continuum Emission of Star Forming Galaxies at Low to High Redshift
Andrew O’Brien	Nicholas Tothill, Miroslav Filipovic Western Sydney University	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 & 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	Baerbel Koribalski	The HIX Galaxy Survey – How HI eXtreme galaxies maintain their HI reservoir
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 Filopovic & Nick Tothill Western Sydney University	Ray Norris	The history and evolution of young and distant radio sources
Dougal Dobie (Hons)	The University of Sydney		Detection and analysis of extreme scattering events
Dane Kleiner	Kevin Pimbblet & D. Heath Jones Monash University	Baerbel 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
Alessandro Maini	University of Bologna Macquarie University		Modelling the faint radio sky: the pathway to SKA
Ayna Museava	Elaine Sadler & Sean Farrell The University of Sydney	Baerbel Koribalski	Intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies
Glen Rees	Macquarie University		Cosmology using next generation radio telescopes
Sarah Reeves	The University of Sydney		HI emission and absorption-line studies of nearby, gas-rich galaxies
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	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Paul Brook	University of Oxford		Variability in pulsars
Shi Dai	Peking University		High precision pulsar timing
Helga Denes	Virginia Kilborn Swinburne University of Technology	Baerbel Koribalski	A Wide-Field Investigation into the H I Content of Galaxies
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	Enno Middelberg, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Quentin Parker, Macquarie University	Ray Norris	The Broadband 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
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	Swinburne University of Technology		Study of the interstellar medium through radio phenomena of short duration
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	University of Tasmania		Investigating the earliest stages of high-mass star formation
Marion Wienen	Karl Menten, Pavel Kroupa Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (University of Bonn)	Baerbel Koribalski	Temperatures and Distances to High-mass Star-forming Regions in the Inner Galaxy
Xingjiang Zhu	University of Western Australia		Searching for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes pulsar timing array data sets

2014

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Tiffany Day	Macquarie University		The flows of neutral hydrogen in the grand design spiral galaxy M83
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
Nipanjana Patra	Raman Research Institute		Precision measurements of the radio background at long wavelengths
Hayden Rampadarath	Curtin University		Applications of high-frequency resolution, wide-field VLBI: observations of nearby star-forming galaxies & habitable exoplanetary candidates
Kathrin Wolfinger	Swinburne University of Technology		The effect of environment on the evolution of nearby gas-rich spiral galaxies
Rai Yuen	University of Sydney		Pulsar magnetosphere revisited: emission geometry and the synthesis of the vacuum-dipole and the rotating-magnetorsphere models
Peter-Christian Zinn	Ruhr-Universitat Bochum		New avenues in galaxy evolution studies: large-scale magnetic fields and properties of high-redshift radio emitters

2013

 

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-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	CSIRO co-supervisor	Project title
Rajan Chhetri	University of New South Wales		Quasars, radio galaxies and gravitational lenses in the high radio frequency universe
Kate Chow (Randall)	Andrew Hopkins University of Sydney	Ray Norris	The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population
Yanett Contreras	University of Chile		The nature of filamentary structures of dense molecular gas in the Galactic Plane
Andres Guzman	University of Chile		Ionized jets and molecular outflows in high-mass young stellar objects
Chris Hales	University of Sydney		Deep imaging of the radio sky in total intensity and linear polarisation
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
Lina Levin Preston	Matthew Bailes, Willem van Straten, Michael Kramer (MPIfR Bonn) Swinburne University of Technology	Simon Johnston	A Search for Radio Pulsars: from Millisecond Pulsars to Magnetars

2011

Student	University Supervisor	CSIRO co-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	CSIRO co-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	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
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	CSIRO co-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	CSIRO co-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	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	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	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