Our people
Meet our teams of directors, academics, PhD students and committee members.
Leadership group
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Distinguished Professor Jean Brodie
CAS Director -
Professor Michael Murphy
CAS Deputy Director; COMBS Chief Investigator
Academic staff
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Rebecca Allen | Co-Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute; Program Director, Youth Space Innovation Challenge | |
| Distinguished Professor Matthew Bailes | Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) | |
| Professor Chris Blake | Research and Teaching Faculty | |
| Distinguished Professor Jean Brodie | CAS Director | |
| Associate Professor Michelle Cluver | Associate Professor, Galaxy Evolution | |
| Professor Jeff Cooke | Professor, OzGrav Chief Investigator; ASTRO 3D Associate Investigator | |
| Professor Warrick Couch |
Distinguished Professor, Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology | |
| Professor Darren Croton |
Research Professor | |
| Professor Adam Deller | Pulsar / Fast Radio Bursts Researcher | |
| Professor Alan Duffy | Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute | |
| Kim Ellis Hayes |
kgellis@swinburne.edu.au | Major Discipline Coordinator, Space Technology; Senior Lecturer |
| Associate Professor Deanne Fisher |
Associate Professor, Galaxies | |
| Professor Christopher Fluke | SmartSat Professorial Chair in Data Fusion, Integration and Cognition; Director, Advanced Visualisation Laboratory | |
| Professor Duncan Forbes | Professor | |
| Distinguished Professor Karl Glazebrook | Distinguished Professor; Laureate Fellow | |
| Professor Alister Graham | Former ARC Future Fellow; Associate Investigator with OzGrav; Course Coordinator for Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO) | |
| Professor Jarrod Hurley |
Supercomputing Manager; Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) / Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) Lead; OzGrav Node Leader | |
| Associate Professor Glenn Kacprzak | Associate Professor, Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Evolution | |
| Professor Virginia Kilborn | Swinburne Chief Scientist | |
| Associate Professor Ivo Labbe | ilabbe@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoc Coordinator |
| Professor Sarah Maddison |
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education, Experience and Employability); Professor of Astrophysics | |
| Emeritus Professor Jeremy Mould |
Centre for Dark Matter Chief Investigator | |
| Professor Michael Murphy | CAS Deputy Director, COMBS Chief Investigator | |
| Professor Emma Ryan-Weber | Director, ARC Centre for Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) | |
| Professor Ryan Shannon | ARC Future Fellow and Academic Staff | |
| Associate Professor Ned Taylor | Associate Professor, Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology |
Adjuncts
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Dorota Bayer | dbayer@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Researcher in Strong Gravitational Lensing |
| Professor Thomas Jarrett | tjarrett007@gmail.com | Visiting Professor (Adjunct) of Astrophysics |
| Associate Professor Kurt Liffman |
kliffman@swinburne.edu.au | Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO) Casual Lecturer; Higher Degree Supervisor |
| Dr Fan Liu | fan.liu@monash.edu.au | Adjunct Research Fellow |
| Dr Cristina Martinez-Lombilla | cmartinezlombilla@swinburne.edu.au | Visiting Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) - ASTRO 3D, Galaxy Evolution; Low Surface Brightness |
| Dr Rossi Ruggeri | rruggeri@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Sam Vaughan | samvaughan@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Jielai Zhang | jielaizhang@swinburne.edu.au | Adjunct Research Fellow; OzGrav Research Affiliate |
Postdoctoral fellows
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Brett Addison | baddison@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Dr Tania Barone | tbarone@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Dr Adam Batten | abatten@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Hubble Tension |
| Dr Andrew Cameron | andrewcameron@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Pulsar Researcher, MeerTime Data Pipeline Development |
| Dr Rebecca Davies | rdavies@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Researcher; STACK Technical Secretary |
| Dr Dougal Dobie | ddobie@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Mark Durré | mdurre@swinburne.edu.au | Sessional Postdoctoral Research Assistant, IFU Software Expertise and Training |
| Dr Chris Flynn | Postdoctoral Researcher, Molonglo Radio Telescope Fast Radio Burst and Pulsar Timing Programs | |
| Dr Jonah Gannon | jgannon@swinburne.edu.au | Director's Research Fellow |
| Dr Kelly Gourdji | Postdoctoral Researcher, Radio Transients | |
| Dr Colin Jacobs | Data Scientist, James Webb Australian Data Centre | |
| Dr Shreejit Jadhav | spjadhav@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher, Gravitational Waves Data Analysis and Instrumentation |
| Dr Steven Janssens | Postdoctoral Researcher, Observational Extragalactic Astronomy | |
| Dr Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo | bmazzilliciraulo@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Ben McAllister | bmcallister@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dark Matter Detection |
| Dr Anais Möller | amoller@swinburne.edu.au | ARC DECRA Fellow |
| Dr Robert Mostoghiu | rmostoghiupaun@swinburne.edu.au | ARC CDMPP Research Associate, Dark Matter Simulations |
| Dr Themiya Nanayakkara | Astronomer, James Webb Australian Data Centre | |
| Dr Nikki Nielsen | Astro 3D Fellow | |
| Dr Joel Pfeffer | jpfeffer@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Jade Powell |
ARC DECRA Fellow, Gravitational Wave Astrophysics | |
| Dr Daniel Reardon | OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher, Pulsar Timing | |
| Dr Manodeep Sinha | ASTRO 3D Senior Research Software Scientist | |
| Dr Robert Song | yuzhesong@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Simon Stevenson |
OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher; ARC DECRA Fellow | |
| Dr Ryan Turner | rjturner@swinburne.edu.au | Postdoctoral Researcher, Cosmology, Large-scale Structure and Peculiar Velocities |
| Dr Sara Webb | swebb@swinburne.edu.au | Research Fellow; Outreach Manager; Swinburne Youth Space Innovation Challenge (SYSIC) / Swinburne Haileybury International Space Station Experiment (SHINE) Coordinator |
Technical, Outreach and Support staff
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Eman Ali | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Jackie Bondell | OzGrav Education and Outreach Coordinator | |
| Jes Cantos | jcantos@swinburne.edu.au | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support |
| Dr Conrad Chan | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Patrick Clearwater | pclearwater@swinburne.edu.au | GWDC / ADACS Software Developer |
| Sarah Colbert | CAS Research Centre Coordinator | |
| Krystal De Napoli | kdenapoli@swinburne.edu.au | ASTRO 3D Education and Outreach Officer |
| Dr Yeshe Fenner | Chief Operating Officer, OzGrav | |
| Will Gauvin | wgauvin@swinburne.edu.au | ADACS Senior Software Engineer |
| Ari Hernandez | Project Officer, OzGrav | |
| Lisa Horsley | lhorsley@swinburne.edu.au | OzGrav Outreach Officer and Research Coordinator |
| Andrew Jameson | Senior Software Engineer | |
| Carl Knox | Digital Media and Marketing Officer | |
| Lewis Lakerink | llakerink@swinburne.edu.au | Senior Software Engineer |
| Asher Leslie | jaleslie@swinburne.edu.au | GWDC / ADACS UX Designer and Software Engineer |
| Dr David Liptai | ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support | |
| Mark Myers | markmyers@swinburne.edu.au | Education and Outreach Content Creator |
| Erin O'Grady | Project Officer | |
| Simon Parsons | Research Administrator, ASTRO 3D and Dark Matter | |
| Dr Greg Poole | Astronomy Data Science Program Coordinator | |
| Dr Thomas Reichardt | treichardt@swinburne.edu.au | ADACS and GWDC Software Support |
| Dr Shibli Saleheen | ADACS Software Engineer | |
| Ray Seikel | rseikel@swinburne.edu.au | Senior Software Engineer |
| Luana Spadafora | OzGrav Communications Officer | |
| Bec Todd | ADACS and GWDC Research Coordinator; OzGrav Research Coordinator |
Postgraduate students
| Name | Contact details | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob Askew | jaskew@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student and Student Representative - Millisecond Pulsars |
| Gen Batten | gbatten@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Groups |
| Kamal Bora | kbora@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Strong Gravitational Lensing and Machine Learning |
| Brian Brady | bbrady@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Astro Visualisation |
| Geoff Bryan | gbryan@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Early Planetary Formation |
| Luisa Buzzo | PhD student - Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies | |
| Dylan Dance | ddance@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Lewis de Zoete | 101606593@student.swinburne.edu.au | Honors student - Astronomical Visual Inspection |
| Tyson Dial | tdial@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts |
| Mitchell Dixon | mdixon@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Burak Dogruel | bdogruel@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology |
| Rory Elliott | roryelliott@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - High Redshift Galaxy Outflow Studies |
| Nimas Emas | PhD student | |
| Juan Espejo | jespejosalcedo@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Evolution |
| Antonia Fernandez Figueroa | PhD student | |
| Jim Freeburn | jfreeburn@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows |
| Pratyasha Gitika | pgitika@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Pulsars |
| Simon Goode | sgoode@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Machine Learning and Fast Transients |
| Lydia Haacke | lhaacke@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Ultra Diffuse Galaxies |
| Magdalena Hamel Bravo | mhamelbravo@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Tyler Hughes | tjhughes@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Machine Learning Application in Astronomy |
| Renee Key | rkey@swinburne.edu.au | PhD Student - Primordial Black Holes and Student Outreach Coordinator |
| Atharva Kulkarni | adkulkarni@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Pulsar Studies |
| Christian Lehmann | PhD student - Solar Twins | |
| Stuart Lyall | syall@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Ayushi Mandlik | amandlik@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Radio Burst |
| Monse Martinez | mmartinezmarin@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Machine Learning Galaxy Evolution |
| Daniel McPherson | dmcpherson@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Scale Outflows |
| Matt Miles | matthewmiles@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Millisecond Pulsars and Gravitational Waves |
| Ally Morton | allisonmorton@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Circumgalactic Medium |
| Aaron Myszka | amyszka@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Galaxy Evolution |
| Hasti Nateghi | hnateghi@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student and ASTRO 3D student representative |
| Tony Pilkington | PhD student - Globular Clusters | |
| Sera Rauhut | srauhut@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Modified Gravity |
| Bron Reichardt Chu | breichardtchu@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Star Formation Driven Outflows |
| Ben Scott | benjaminscott@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Solar Twin / Quasar Probes of Electromagnetism's Strength |
| Alma Sebastian | PhD student - XQR30 | |
| Mohsen Shamohammadi | mshamohammadi@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Precision Pulsars Timing and Gravitational Waves |
| Daniel Smith | danielsmith@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Micro Optics in Astronomy |
| Mark Suhr | msuhr@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Superluminous Supernovae |
| Shingo Tanigawa | stanigawa@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Adam Ussing | aussing@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Dark Matter Simulations |
| Pavan Uttarkar | puttarkar@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts |
| Natasha Van Bemmel | nvanbemmel@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Fast Transients |
| Wesley Van Kempen | wvankempen@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student |
| Hugo Walsh | hwalsh@swinburne.edu.au | PhD student - Visual Discovery |
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