Professor Matthew Bailes is known for his pioneering work on millisecond pulsars and fast radio bursts and is the founder of the ASTRAL 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.

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.

Dr. Kirsten Banks is a Wiradjuri woman, astrophysicist, and science communicator. She is well known for her work in stellar astrophysics and her advocacy for Indigenous Australian astronomy. Kirsten is a lecturer at Swinburne University and serves as a Science Communicator for OzGrav. She is widely recognized for making complex space concepts accessible through digital media, with a massive following on platforms like TikTok where she shares her passion for space.

Dr. Emma Carli is an OzGrav Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swinburne University. Her research primarily focuses on radio astronomy, specifically the study of pulsars and neutron stars. She currently manages pulsar timing data from the MeerKAT radio telescope and is a pioneer in extragalactic pulsar searches, having significantly increased the known population of these objects during her doctoral studies.