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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding Opportunities
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Reports >
      • Annual Reports
      • Industry Success Stories
      • Strategic Plan
    • Member resources
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students >
      • Faces of OzGrav
    • Professional & Outreach staff
    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Early Career Researcher Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data/Astro
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • How to write a research brief
  • Contact Us

Associate investigators and Affiliates

Swinburne University of Technology

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Prof Adam Deller
Radio interferometry, Pulsars, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Digital Signal Processing
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Dr Kelly Gourdji
radio astronomy, interferometry, astrometry, merger radio afterglows,FRBs
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Professor
Alister Graham
​SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES, INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES, GALAXY MORPHOLOGY, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES​
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Dr Anais Möller
optical and multi-wavelength follow-up, machine learning, filtering
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A/Prof Ryan Shannon
PULSARS TIMING ARRAYS, RADIO TRANSIENTS
ARC Future Fellow
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Dr Simon Stevenson
BINARY STELLAR EVOLUTION GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
DECRA
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Australian National University

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Dr Chathura Bandutunga
Interferometry, fibre optic sensors, spectroscopy, research translation,FPGA signal processing.
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Dr Johannes Eichholz
Instrumentation, Thermal Noise, Optical Coatings, Cryogenics, Controls
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Dr Hassan Iqbal
Laser matter interaction, Thin film deposition and characterisation,Integrated optics, Photolithography and LabVIEW programming.
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Dr Christian Wolf
optical/IR imaging and spectroscopy, galaxy evolution, photometric redshifts, gamma-ray bursts
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Monash University

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Dr Evgeni Grishin
stellar-evolution, compact objects, dynamics, electromagneticcounterparts
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Professor Alexander Heger
Massive star evolution, Stellar rotation, Supernovae, Stellar remnants, First stars

Associate Professor Bernhard Mueller
Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stellar Evolution

University of Adelaide

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Emeritus Professor Jesper Munch
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Associate Professor Gavin Rowell
high energy astrophysics, cosmic-ray and electron propagation, gamma-ray 
production and related data analysis
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UNIVERSITY of MElbourne

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Dr Katie Auchettl
Supernovae, neutron stars, black holes, multi-wavelength and timedomain follow-up, transients
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University of Western Australia

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Dr Carl Blair
OPTOMECHANICS COMMISSIONING CONTROL CRYOGENIC SILICON
DECRA Fellowship 2019 - 2022
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Dr Eric Howell
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Dr Andrew Sunderland
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Additional Universities and Organisations

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Dr Philip Charlton
Gravitational waves, stochastic background, chirplets
Charles Sturt University
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Prof Tara Murphy
Radio astronomy, data analysis, gravitational wave event follow-up
University of Sydney
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Dr Ashley Ruiter
thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae, binary evolution, accreting white dwarfs, interacting stars, fast transients
University of New South Wales
Canberra
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Dr Karelle Siellez
GRB - NSBH - BNS - data analysis - GW
University of Tasmania
TEDx talk
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Dr Nithyanandan Thyagarajan
Interferometry, novel techniques, gravitation, transients, cosmology
CSIRO
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A/Prof Willem Van Straten
Auckland University of Technology
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Dr Kendall Ackley
OPTICAL/NEAR-INFRARED ASTRONOMY, GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EVENT
FOLLOW-UP, GAMMA-RAY BURSTS, TRANSIENTS, DATA ANALYSIS
University of Warwick
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Dr Neil Cornish
Bayesian inference, general relativity, astrophysics
Montana State University
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Prof Tiziana Di Matteo
High performance computing, massive black hole binaries, cosmology
Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor
Peter Fritschel
​MIT Kavli Institute​
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Professor
Giles Hammond
University of Glasgow
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A/Prof Paola Leaci
GW Data Analysis, Pulsar Search,
Observational Relativity and Cosmology
Rome Sapienza University and INFN
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Dr Patrick Meyers
Data Analysis, Persistent Gravitational Waves
California Institute of Technology
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Dr Hannah Middleton
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, DATA ANALYSIS, OUTREACH
University of Birmingham
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Affiliates

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Dr Vaishali Adya
interferometry, control systems, optical layouts, simulations, squeezing
ANU Postdoctoral Researcher 2018 to 2021, then Researcher, Quantum optics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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Dr Rebecca Allen
Education/teaching, Outreach Content development, Galaxy evolution, Image processing
Swinburne University of Technology
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Dr Gemma Anderson
Transients, gamma-ray bursts, radio rapid follow-up
ICRAR - Curtin University
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Dr Igor Andreoni
PhD student completing in 2018 at Swinburne University of Technology, then Postdoctoral researcher at Caltech
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Dr Greg Ashton
Associate Investigator with Monash University to 2020, then Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Portsmouth
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Dr Sylvia Biscoveanu
Stochastic background, GRBs, parameter estimation
Postdoctoral Researcher with Monash University 2018 and MIT
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Dr Ron Burman
Gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, pulsars
​University of Western Australia
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Ben Burridge
Astronomy, physics, mathematics, statistics, communication/ outreach
Masters student at UWA 2018 to 2021, then Senior Consultant at KPMG Perth.
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Dr Huy Tuong Cao
Interferometry, Control Systems, Distortion and Instability, Optical Simulation, Adaptive Optics
PhD student 2019 and Postdoctoral Researcher to 2022 at University of Adelaide, the Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Riverside, in California USA
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Dr Juan Calderon Bustillo
Binary black holes, black hole spectroscopy, parameter estimation, numerical relativity
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Dr Seo-Won Chang
Research Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Researcher)  at Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea
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Dr Debatri Chattopadhyay
Binary black holes, millisecond pulsars, Nbody, population synthesis
Completed PhD at Swinburne University of Technology in 2021 then Research Associate at Cardiff University UK
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Professor Warrick Couch 
Australian Astronomical Observatory – AAO
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Dr Benjamin Davis
Galaxy structure; logarithmic spiral arm pitch angle; black hole mass scaling.
Research Associate - Fellow of the Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics
New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Dr Ema Dimastrogiovanni
primordial gravitational waves, inflation, LISA
University of New South Wales
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Dr Hao Ding
Precise determination of distances, proper motions and reference positions for Galactic neutron stars, including millisecond pulsars, double neutron stars, magnetars and NS X-ray binaries.
PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology
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Prof Alan Duffy
Also involved with ASTRO3D and Dark Matter Particle Physics ARC Centres of Excellence
Swinburne University of Technology
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Dr Matteo R. Fasiello
Primordial gravitational waves, inflation, modified gravity
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth
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Dr Garry Foran
Instrumentation, optics, detectors, spectroscopy, high-redshift galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
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Dr Sam Francis
Space interferometry, metrology, instrumentation
Australian National University until Feb 2018
Then moving to NASA-JPL and collaborating on LISA
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​Adj Assoc Prof Howard Golden
Geophysics, vibration isolation, gravitational waves
Significant experience over two decades with vibration isolation systems, application of GW technologies to the Geophysics industry, and governmental relations. 
University of Western Australia
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Dr Boris Goncharov
Postdoctoral researcher: gravitational-wave astrophysics, Einstein Telescope science
The Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L'Aquila, Italy
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Hui Guo
Quantum optics, lasers, programming, circuits
PhD student at UWA in 2018 then Institute of Opto-Electronics ,Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi university, Taiyuan, China
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Dr Eric Howard
quantum physics, cosmology, optics, condensed matter, astrophysics
MQCQE, QMAPP, Macquarie University
Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO
CQD, Griffith University
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Craig Ingram
Optical Engineer for LEO hyperspectral imaging cubesats
University of Adelaide CSIRO
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Dr Hassan Iqbal
Laser matter interaction, Thin film deposition and characterisation,Integrated optics, Photolithography and LabVIEW programming.
Australian National University
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Dr Clancy James
cosmic rays, FRBs, MWA, neutrinos, radio astronomy
ICRAR - Curtin University
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Dr David Kaplan
Multi-messenger transients, multi-wavelength wide-field surveys, compact objects.
http://www.gravity.phys.uwm.edu/~kaplan/

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Dr Magdalena Kersting
Outreach, Einstein First, Science education
University of Oslo, Norway
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Prof Alain Klotz
Data analysis of images of optical telescopes (Zadko in particular)
optical data analysis, GRB, kilonova, supernova
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (France)
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Dr Marcus Lower
Bayesian Parameter Estimation for Pulsar Timing
PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology to 2021, then Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulsar Astronomy at CSIRO ATNF
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Dr Grant David Meadors
Gravitational waves, data analysis, observation
Postdoctoral researcher 2018 at Monash University, then Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher, investigating space physics and space weather using Bayesian inference on satellite data
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Dr Meg Millhouse
Gravitational waves, Data analysis, Bayesian inference
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Melbourne 2018-2022, then Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Mark Myers
Education and Outreach Content Developer
Swinburne University of Technology
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Dr Stefan Oslowski
pulsars, fast radio bursts, population synthesis
Swinburne University of Technology 2017 to 2021, then Manly Astrophysics, Sydney Australia
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Dr Michael Page
Quantum optics, optomechanics, noise
PhD student at UWA completing in 2019, now Postdoctoral researcher at NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo.
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Tony Pilkington
Astrophysics, astronomy, dynamics, cosmology, stars
PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, supervisor: Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Dr Matthew Pitkin
Pulsars, Bayesian inferences, data analysis and software.
University of Glasgow
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Liana Rauf
Simulations, BBHs, galaxy evolution, dark-sirens
University of Queensland
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Dr Isobel Romero-Shaw
Numerical modelling, astrophysics, programming, scientific writing
PhD Student and Postdoctoral Researcher at Monash University to 2022, then Herchel Smith Fellow at University of Cambridge, UK
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Dr Nandini Sahu
Galaxy structure and evolution, supernova remnants, gravitational lensing
PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, then Postdoctoral Researcher (ASTRO3D), studying galaxy evolution with gravitational lenses with ASTRO3D at University of New South Wales
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Dr Rahul Sengar
Relativistic binary pulsars, data analysis
PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, then Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
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Dr Hengxin Sun
Lecturer at Shanxi University
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Dr Colm Talbot
Research Scholar at Caltech
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A/Prof Michele Trenti
Modeling GW events originating from dynamical interactions in dense stellar systems
University of Melbourne
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Dr Alejandro Vigna Gomez
Relativistic Astrophysics, Population Modelling
Niels Bohr Institute
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Dr Serena Vinciguerra
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover DE
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Mx Celine Wang
Astrophysics, data, CBC's, parameter estimation
Smith College
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Dr Jielai Zhang
DWF, and multi-wavelength simultaneous observations and data analysis to elucidate the nature of fast transients.
Postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University of Technology to 2022, then NAVIGATE program with Defence Science and Technology Group, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 
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Dr Xingjiang Zhu
Gravitational Waves, pulsars, black holes, neutron stars
Postdoctoral researcher at Monash University to 2021, then Research Scientist, Faculty position at Beijing Normal University
Dr Poojan Agrawal
Globular clusters, stellar dynamics, binaries
PhD student completing in 2021 at Swinburne University of Technology, the Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh USA

Dr Lucy McNeill
Astroseismology, celestial mechanics, hydrodynamics, populations
PhD student at Monash University to 2021, then JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Dr Nikhil Sarin
neutron stars, gamma ray bursts, post-merger remnants
PhD at Monash University, completed in 2021, then Postdoctoral Researcher at Nordita Institute, Stockholm
Pierre Thierry
The research project aims to install a new wide field spectrometer at the back of the Zadko Telescope. This instrument will allow us to extract the spectrum of any interesting object located in the error box of a GW event, and to precise within minutes its spectral properties. This will greatly help the detection in optical of the GW counterpart.
Observatoire des Makes, France
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We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our six Australian nodes stand

​© 2022   The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational  Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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