A.S.T.R.A.L. | Mentors

FIELD ASTROPHYSICS

PHD AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 1989

EXPERIENCE 30 YEARS

EXPERTISE GALAXIES, STARS, PULSARS AND FAST RADIO BURSTS

DR. Chris Flynn has over 30 years experience working in optical and radio astronomy, with an emphasis on measuring the matter content of the universe. He obtained his PhD in 1989 from Mount Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University, has worked in Heidelberg Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, in Princeton and Columbus in the US and at the Tuorla Observatory in Finland. During this period he worked primarily with space-based optical observatories, such as Hipparcos,the Hubble Space Telescope, and Gaia. He has been a senior researcher in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology for the last decade, working on Fast Radio Bursts and pulsars.

FIELD ASTROPHYSICS

PHD AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

EXPERIENCE 30+ YEARS

EXPERTISE PULSARS, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, FAST RADIO BURSTS

Professor Matthew Bailes is known for his pioneering work on millisecond pulsars and fast radio bursts and is the founder of the A.S.T.R.A.L. program. His PhD on at ANU was awarded the Crawford Prize in 1990, and he won the CSIRO medal for his work that unveiled many of the brightest millisecond pulsars in the Southern hemisphere. He was awarded the Australian Research Council's Endeavour, QEII, Senior and Laureate Fellowships, and has led two successful Centre of Excellence bids on gravitational wave discovery. He is currently the Director of the OzGrav Centre of Excellence. In 1998 he founded the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, now one of Australia's major astronomical research centres.

FIELD ASTROPHYSICS

MASTERS INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS

UNDERTAKING PHD

EXPERTISE FAST RADIO BURSTS, ASTROMETRY, INSTRUMENTATION

Akhil Jaini is currently pursuing his PhD at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, specialising in detecting and analysing Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and improving the astrometric accuracy of interferometric radio telescopes like the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). With a background in electrical engineering, he started his journey in astrophysics through radio instrumentation before delving deeper into the physics. He has experience in designing a wide range of astronomical instruments from radio antennas to space-grade ultraviolet spectrographs. He also has experience in modelling and simulations, data analysis, algorithm development, and machine learning. Outside work, Akhil enjoys photography, writing, or just exploring new places.

FIELD ASTROPHYSICS

MASTERS MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

UNDERTAKING PHD

EXPERTISE PULSARS, SUPERCOMPUTING, PIPELINES

Saurav Mishra is a current PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, specializing in pulsar searching and timing. He recently completed his MASTERS IN RESEARCH at Macquarie University, with a focus on pulsar searching. Before his current role, he served as a research technician at CSIRO, contributing to the development of a pulsar DATA PROCESSING pipeline for the upcoming Parkes cryoPAF data processing pipeline.

FIELD ASTROPHYSICS

PHD THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

EXPERIENCE 4+ YEARS

EXPERTISE PULSARS, DATA PROCESSING, PIPELINES

Emma is a Postdoctoral Research fellow of OzGrav 2.0, at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology. Her PhD was on finding (very rare) radio-emitting neutron stars/pulsars outside our galaxy, with the MeerKAT telescope, a state-of-the art telescope in South Africa that is a precursor of the future Square Kilometre Array observatory Emma is currently working on database/data pipelines for MeerKAT pulsar timing.

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PROF. Matthew Bailes

Dr. Chris Flynn

Saurav Mishra

Dr. Kirsten Banks

Rudra Sekhri

Dr. Emma Carli

Bailee Wolfe

Akhil Jaini

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