Research Interests of ATNF Staff
- James Allison
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Detection of extragalactic 21cm absorption HI in the host galaxies of AGN The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- HomePage: www.csiro.au
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- Shaun Amy
- Group: Computing Infrastructure
- Interests:
- Supernova remnants, HII regions, computing, image processing and techniques in radio astronomy.
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- Lewis Ball
- Group: CASS Executive
- Interests:
- Radio supernovae, supernova remnants, particle acceleration, time-dependent synchrotron emission, pulsar winds
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/Lewis.Ball/
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- Keith Bannister
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- "Archival and Future Searches for Radio Transients"
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- Ron Beresford
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- EMC UWB survey prototype tests
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- Douglas Bock
- Group: Engineering & Operations
- Interests:
- Supernova remnants and pulsars surveys
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- Leonie Boddington
- Group: Observatory Operations
- Interests:
- Heritage Induction
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- Robin Boddington
- Group: Directors Office
- Interests:
- ASKAP Aboriginal Liaison Officer. Visitors Centre
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- Russell Bolton
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)
- Interests:
- Cryogenic low noise receivers for radioastronomy, Microwave electronics, Precision machining, High quality metal surface finishing, CAD design.
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- Marie-Louise Bortolazzo
- Group:
- Interests:
- CSIRO HSE & CARS Training
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- Shari Breen
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- "Masers as evolutionary traces of star formation"
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- Christoph Brem
- Group: Engineering Operations
- Interests:
- Instrumentation
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- David Brodrick
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- "Astronomical Observations using Low Frequency Radio Interferometers"
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- Kate Brooks
- Group: Observatory Operations
- Interests:
- Massive star formation, millimetre and infrared observations
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/kbrooks
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Santiago Castillo
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)
- Interests:
- C/X Rx Installation
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- Jessica Chapman
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- Stellar masers and AGB stars. Late Stages of Stellar Evolution. Stellar mass-loss and circumstellar Envelopes. High-mass stars. Galactic Structure and stellar distances. Data Management Systems
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Jessica.Chapman/
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- Aaron Chippendale
- Group: Engineering & Operations
- Interests:
- Phased array feeds, antenna measurements, epoch of reionisation (21cm).
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/chi139/
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- Kate Chow
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- The evolution of young radio sources and the milliJansky radio source population. Deep radio surveys.
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Shi Dai
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Pulsar Astronomy and high energy astrophysics
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Joanne Dawson
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Galactic ISM, molecular cloud formation
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Joanne.Dawson/
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Helga Denes
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Global HI properties of galaxies in the Southern Sky
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- Xinping Deng
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Thesis "Pulsar timing and its application in spacecraft navigation"
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- Ron Ekers
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, especially radio observations of galactic nuclei including the Galactic centre and radio continuum emission from starforming regions. Radio telescopes, interference mitigation and image formation theory. International scientific collaborations, SKA and IAU.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Ron.Ekers/
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- Dick Ferris
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Electronics Group)
- Interests:
- Wideband data acquisition and digital signal processing hardware, digital filter design, advanced correlators, signal path design for SKA, VLBI instrumentation, general radio telescope instrumentation
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- Ross Forsyth
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)
- Interests:
- Parkes 12-m antenna infrastructure development
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- Russell Gough
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Receiver Group)
- Interests:
- Radioastronomy receiver systems, Low-noise amplifiers, Monolithic microwave integrated circuit design, Radioastronomy.
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- Amanda Gray
- Group: Research Support(Administration)
- Interests:
- CASS Operations/Astronomy support
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- Lisa Harvey-Smith
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, rotation measures, masers, maser polarimetry, massive star-formation, VLBI.
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- Craig Haskins
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- ASKAP
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- Douglas Hayman
- Group: Engineering & Operations
- Interests:
- ASKAP/12m commissioning phased array feeds
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- George Heald
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Galaxy evolution, low frequency surveys, radio polarimetry
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/George.Heald/
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- Ian Heywood
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Galaxy evolution, star formation and the SF history of the Universe, AGN, accretion-powered outflows, radio continuum and spectral line surveys, next-gen radio interferometry techniques and telescopes, etc.
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- George Hobbs
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Pulsars, Astrometry, Computing
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- Robert Hollow
- Group: Research Support(Communications)
- Interests:
- Astronomy education. Student-based investigations in astronomy. Remote/robotic telescopes for education. Teacher research schemes.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Robert.Hollow/
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- Shinji Horiuchi
- Group: Tidbinbilla
- Interests:
- AGNs, Cosmic Masers, SKA, VLBI, Single Dish Observations
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- Aidan Hotan
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- Pulsar timing, instrumentation
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- Suzy Jackson
- Group: Engineering Operations
- Interests:
- Integrated RF systems, RF-CMOS design, signal processing, instrumentation.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Suzy.Jackson
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- Megan Johnson
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- HI in dwarf galaxies
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- Simon Johnston
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Pulsars, Supernova remnants, polarization, ASKAP
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Simon.Johnston/
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- Matthew Kerr
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Pulsars!
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- Mike Kesteven
- Group: Astrophysics,Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)
- Interests:
- Supernova remnants, Antenna metrology, Radio interferometry.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mkesteve
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- Amy Kimball
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Quasars/AGN, super-massive black holes, high-redshift galaxies, evolution of radio sources.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Amy.Kimball/
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- Baerbel Koribalski
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- galaxies in the Local Volume; galaxy kinematics, formation & evolution; star formation; HI surveys
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/bkoribal/
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- Ed Kruzins
- Group: Tidbinbilla
- Interests:
- Space Tracking
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- Karen Lee-Waddell
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- HI in galaxy groups
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- Erik Lensson
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Leader)
- Interests:
- ATNF Operations, RFI detection, tracking & countermeasures
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- Adam MacLeod
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)
- Interests:
- ASKAP Systems Engineer
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- Stacy Mader
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- Effect of Supernova remnants & HII regions on isolated/clustered star formation in giant molecular clouds; Multiwavelengths observations of outflows from young stellar objects; NH3 line spectroscopy of molecular clouds; Radio recombination-lines.
- HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/smader
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- Juan Madrid
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Galaxies
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- Dick Manchester
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Pulsars, supernova remnants, globular clusters. Astrometry and Time. Radiation Mechanisms. Galactic Interstellar Medium and Magnetic Fields.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/Dick.Manchester/
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- Malte Marquarding
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- Late-Type Galaxies
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- Josh Marvil
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Radio Continuum, Local Galaxies
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- David McConnell
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- Radio Astronomy. Pulsars - high time resolution studies.Pulsar emission mechanisms. Pulsar observing techniques. Time scales and reference frames. Computing, digital signal processing and data acquisition for radio astronomy, polarimetry in radio astronomy.
- HomePage: mcc381@atnf.csiro.au
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- Korinne McDonnell
- Group: Tidbinbilla(CDSCC)
- Interests:
- Supernova remnants with molecular clouds, masers
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Vince McIntyre
- Group: Computing Infrastructure
- Interests:
- Galaxies, LMXBs, Radio Continuum Surveys of Magellanic Clouds, Virtual Observatories, computing
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Vincent.McIntyre/
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- Daniel Mitchell
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- Technical challenges of forthcoming wide-field radio arrays, in particular calibration, wide-field imaging, and interference mitigation.
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- Ray Norris
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Deep radio surveys, galaxies in the early Universe; The starburst-AGN connection; Methanol masers and their significance for models of star formation; Circular polarisation of quasars and galaxies; Virtual Observatory; SETI Data Management and Open Access; Aboriginal Astronomy.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Ray.Norris/
- ATNF Site: Room:
- John O'Sullivan
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Phased Array Feed
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- Stephen Ord
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- Pulsars
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- Chris Phillips
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- Massive star formation, VLBI, masers, mm spectroscopy, correlators 20 GHz ATCA continuum survey, disk and network based VLBI recording
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Jill Rathborne
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- molecular clouds the our Galaxy
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- John Reynolds
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- Interferometry Techniques. Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Systems scientist at large Reference Frames. Astrometry. Stellar radio astronomy.
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- Maria Rioja
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- MWA & VLBI calibration and imaging
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- Adrian Rispler
- Group: ASKAP
- Interests:
- ASKAP
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- Paul Roberts
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Electronics Group)
- Interests:
- Microwave and high speed circuits, integrated circuit design, photonics, signal processing, radio astronomical instrumentation.
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- John Sarkissian
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- Member of several pulsar teams involved in the precision timing and discovery of millisecond pulsars. Support other pulsar observations. Involved in the characterisation of RFI at the various ATNF and related sites.
- HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/jsarkiss
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- Paolo Serra
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Galaxies
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Paolo.Serra
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Ryan Shannon
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- Radio pulsars
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- Li Shao
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- LVHIS galaxies and database
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- Robert Shaw
- Group: Engineering & Operations
- Interests:
- ASKAP: designing and testing phased array feeds
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- Malcolm Smith
- Group: Engineering Operations
- Interests:
- The End of Time itself, Remote Sensing, Receiver calibration
- HomePage: http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/msmith/
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- Jamie Stevens
- Group: Science Operations
- Interests:
- The HI properties of galaxy groups Transients
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- Michelle Storey
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- LOFAR. SKA site study issues. Electronic publishing. Active radio stars. Radio-quiet Reserve research
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- Lawrence Toomey
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- Pulsars
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- Tasso Tzioumis
- Group: Astrophysics,National Facility Support,National Facility Support(LBA Operations)
- Interests:
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Gravitational Lenses. X-ray binary stars. Digital signal processing, Imaging techniques Radio spectrum management and protection.
- HomePage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Tasso.Tzioumis/
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Maxim Voronkov
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- Interferometry theory, interferometry simulations, SKA design, cosmic masers mostly on methanol molecule theory and observations
- ATNF Site: Room:
- Jing Wang
- Group: Astrophysics
- Interests:
- galaxy formation and evolution, HI surveys
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- Norm Webster
- Group: Narrabri Observatory(Systems Eng. Site Coord.)
- Interests:
- Antenna Maintenance
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- Mark Wieringa
- Group: Software and Computing
- Interests:
- Radio Interferometry, Selfcalibration & Imaging techniques. SKA/LOFAR configurations and simulations. Radio Interferometry, Selfcalibration & Imaging techniques
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- Warwick Wilson
- Group: Engineering & Operations(Engineering Research)
- Interests:
- Radio Astronomy Instrumentation; Digital Signal Processing; Microwave Electronics; Photonics.
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