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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding oppurtunities >
      • Sponsorship request form
      • International Visitor funding program
      • Student and Postdoc funding
      • Carer grant
      • GWIC 3G Funding
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Annual Reports
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students
    • Professional & Outreach staff
    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data
    • Astrophysics
  • Education & Outreach
    • Education & Public Outreach
    • A Short history of gravitational waves
    • Graphics and Videos
    • apps
  • Events
    • Calendar
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    • Code of Conduct
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
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Postdoctoral ReseacherS and Students

OzGrav Postdoctoral Researchers

Swinburne University of Technology

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Dr Jade Powell
gravitational waves, Data analysis, Astrophysics
Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes
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Dr Ryan Shannon
Pulsars Timing Arrays, Radio Transients
Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes
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Dr Simon Stevenson
binary stellar evolution gravitational waves
​Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes / A/Prof Jarrod Hurley

Australian National University

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Dr Paul Altin
Gravitational wave detection, optomechanics, squeezing
​Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Terry McRae
Metrology, Quantum Optics, Opto-mechanics, photonics
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Karl Wette
data analysis, pulsars
Supervisor:
Prof Susan Scott

Monash University

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Dr Kendall Ackley
postmerger neutron stars, equations of state
Supervisor:
Dr Duncan Galloway
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Dr Grant David Meadors
Gravitational waves, data analysis, observation
​Supervisor:
Dr Eric Thrane
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Dr Rory Smith
Bayesian inference, gravitational-
wave searches, high-
performance computing, big data, scalable algorithms
Lecturer
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​Dr Xingjiang Zhu
gravitational waves, pulsars, black holes, neutron stars
​Supervisor:
Dr Eric Thrane

University of Western Australia

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Joel Bosveld
data analysis; optimisation
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​Dr Xu (Sundae) Chen
optomechanics
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Dr Qi (ChiChi) Chu
Compact binary coalescence search pipeline
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Dr John Winterflood
Vibration isolation, Electronics & Control

university of ADELAide

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Dr Daniel Brown
Interferometry, modelling, simulation, commissioning, design
​Supervisors:
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
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Dr Sebastian Ng
​Supervisors:
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof Jesper Munch
Dr Ganija Mifta
​Supervisors: Prof Peter Veitch & Prof Jesper Munch
University of Adelaide

University of Melbourne

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Dr Hannah Middleton
gravitational waves, data analysis, outreach
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Dr Sofia Suvorova

OzGrav Students

Swinburne University of Technology

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Poojan Agrawal
Globular Clusters, Stellar Dynamics, Binaries
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Igor Andreoni
electromagnetic fast transient discovery
PhD student
​Supervisors:
A/Prof Jeffrey Cooke & Prof Matthew Bailes & Dr Stuart Ryder
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Debatri Chattopadhyay
binary black holes & millisecond pulsars,NBODY, population synthesis
​PhD student
​Supervisor: A/Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Nandini Sahu
Galaxy structure and Evolution, supernova remnants, gravitational lensing
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Alister Graham
Read Debatri's article about the 2017 discoveries and her research work as a PhD student.

Australian National University

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Nathan Holland
machine learning, control, torsion pendulum
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Dr Robert Ward & 
Prof David McClelland
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Nutsinee Kijbinchoo
aLIGO, squeezer, instrumentation, optics
PhD student
Supervisor: 
Prof David McClelland
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Georgia Mansell
Gravitational waves, precision metrology, quantum optics
​PhD student
​Supervisors: ​
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock
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David McManus
Low Frequency, Newtonian noise, Early Earthquake Warning, Gravimetry
​​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Dr Bram Slagmolen & Prof David McClelland
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Tarquin Ralph
Digital Interferomentry, Wavefront sensing
​PhD  student
Supervisor:
Prof Daniel Shaddock
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Paul Sibley
Digital Interferometry, Optical Phased Array, Coherent Beam Combining
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof Daniel Shaddock
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Jordan Smith
adaptive-optics, instrumentation, space, lasers
Honours student
Supervisor:
Prof Daniel Shaddock
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James Spollard
Optical phased array, link acquisition, digital signal processing
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock

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Min Jet Yap
Interferometry, quantum optics, optomechanics, precision metrology
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock

Perry Forsyth
​Instrumentation, Newtonian Noise, Seismic
PhD student
​Supervisor: Prof David McClelland
Australian National University

Monash University

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Kyla Adams
Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Transient Astrophysics
Honours student
​Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Paul Easter
Machine Learning, Binary Neutron Stars, Post merger remnant, numerical relativity
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Shanika Galaudage
Neutron stars, Continuous gravitational waves, X-ray binaries
Honours student
Supervisors:
Dr Duncan Galloway and Dr Karl Wette
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Boris Goncharov
continuous gravitational waves, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
Dr Eric Thrane
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Francisco Hernandez
false-alarm-rate, statistics, multi-messenger, outreach
PhD student
Supervisor:
Dr Eric Thrane
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Nikhil Sarin
Neutron Stars, Gamma-ray bursts, post-merger remnants
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Colm Talbot
data analysis, compact binaries
PhD student
Supervisor:
Dr Eric Thrane

University of Adelaide

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Deeksha Beniwal
Mid-IR fibre lasers, Wavefront corrections & actuation
MPhil Student
​Supervisors:
Prof David Ottaway & Prof Peter Veitch
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Huy Cao
PhD Student
​Supervisors: ​
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
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Alexei Ciobanu
modelling, "FINESSE", experimental, lasers
PhD student
​Supervisors:​
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
Mitch Herrick
​Student
Laser Design
​Supervisors: Prof Jesper Munch & Prof Peter Veitch
Craig Ingram
​Student
​Instrumentation Hartmann
Supervisors: Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway

University of Melbourne

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Patrick Clearwater
gravitational waves, data analysis, virtual laboratories
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Lisa Drummond
Neutron Stars, Superfluids, Pulsar Glitches
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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George Howitt
Neutron stars, pulsar glitches, population synthesis
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Lucy Strang
Multi-messenger studies of BNS post-merger remnants
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Ling (Lilli) Sun
Gravitational waves, continuous gravitational waves, data analysis
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
Sergey Iakovlev
​PhD student
​Supervisor: Prof Robin Evans and Prof Andrew Melatos

University of Western Australia

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Vladimir Bossilkov
high power laser, cavity, instability
PhD student
​Supervisors:
A/Prof Chunnong Zhao & Prof Li Ju
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Rahul Kumar Choudhary
Education and Public Outreach, Einsteinian Physics Education Research
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David Blair & Adj/Prof Marjan Zadnik
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ShinKee Chung
Data Processing, GPUs,
Research Assistant
Supervisor:
Prof Linqing Wen
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Alex Foppoli
Einsteinian Physics, Physics Education, Gravitational waves, public outreach
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof David Blair
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Rhys Jones
Optical springs, radiation pressure forces
Honours student
Supervisors:
Prof Li Ju and
A/Prof Chunnong Zhao
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Tejinder Kaur
Einstein-First, School curriculum, Einsteinian physics, Modern physics
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof David Blair
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Jian Liu
Parametric instability, High power laser
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
A/Prof Chunnong Zhao
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Joshua McCann
low-frequency; seismic; isolation; instrumentation; control
PhD student
​Supervisors:
A/Prof Chunnong Zhao & Prof David Blair
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John Moschilla
Masters student
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Yoav Naveh
Vibration Isolation
​PhD student
Supervisors:
Prof Ju Li & Dr Andrew Sunderland
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Benjamin Neil
Photonic crystal resonators
PhD student
​Supervisors: 
A/Prof Chunnong Zhao & Prof Ju Li