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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
    • How to write a research brief
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
  • Contact Us

Chief investigators

Our Chief Investigators lead our high quality research programs, supervise research fellows and PhD students, and mentor Early Career  Researchers.
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Professor Matthew Bailes

OzGrav Director
Pulsars, Binary Pulsars, Tests of GR, Binary Evolution, Pulsar Instrumentation
Swinburne University of Technology

Node Leader

director@ozgrav.org
Research Website
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Distinguished Professor David McClelland

OzGrav
Deputy Director
squeezing; thermal; interferometry
Australian National University

​Node Leader

David.McClelland
@anu.edu.au
Research Website

Swinburne University of Technology

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A/Prof Jeff Cooke
Program Leader
jcooke@astro.swin.edu.au
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Professor
Jarrod Hurley
Supercomputing Program Leader
jhurley@astro.swin.edu.au
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Dr Jade Powell
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, DATA ANALYSIS, ASTROPHYSICS, Supernovae
jpowell@swin.edu.au

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Australian National University

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A/Prof Kirk McKenzie
Laser interferometry, low power phase tracking, inter spacecraft laser interferometry
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Distinguished Professor Susan Scott
general relativity, cosmology, gravitational waves
Career Development Program Leader
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Susan.Scott
@anu.edu.au

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Dr Bram Slagmolen
Laser, Controls, Suspension, Earthquakes, Noise
bram.slagmolen
@anu.edu.au

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Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun
Gravitational waves, black holes, neutron stars, astrophysics, detector calibration
ling.sun@anu.edu.au
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MONASH University

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A/Prof Duncan Galloway
neutron stars, X-ray, merger, transient, astrophysics
Program Leader

Duncan.Galloway
@monash.edu
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A/Prof Paul Lasky
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, BLACK HOLES, NEUTRON STARS, RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY
Paul.Lasky
@monash.edu

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Prof Ilya Mandel
theoretical astrophysics; stellar and binary evolution; high-energy transients; dynamics; astrostatistics
ilya.mandel
@monash.edu

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Prof Eric Thrane
Bayesian inference, compact binaries, stochastic
Data Theme Leader
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Node Leader
eric.thrane
@monash.edu.au

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University of Adelaide

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Professor
David Ottaway
david.ottaway
@adelaide.edu.au

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Professor
Peter Veitch
Lasers, wavefront sensing, adaptive optics
Beyond aLIGO Instrumentation Programme Leader
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and Node Leader
​peter.veitch
@adelaide.edu.au

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University of Melbourne

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Professor Rob Evans
Signal Processing, Control Systems, Electronics, Radar
robinje
@unimelb.edu.au

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Professor
Andrew Melatos
LIGO signal processing, relativistic astrophysics
LIGO Pipelines Program Leader
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and Node Leader
amelatos
@unimelb.edu.au

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University of Western Australia

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Professor David Blair
laser interferometers, gravitational waves, Einsteinian physics education, vibration isolation.
Outreach Program Leader
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david.blair@uwa.edu.au
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Associate Professor
David Coward
gamma ray bursts, gravitational waves, optical transients, astronomy, space debris
David.Coward
@uwa.edu.au

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Professor Li Ju
Vibration isolation, thermal noise, parametric instabilities
Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) Instrumentation Program Leader​li.ju@uwa.edu.au
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Professor
Linqing Wen
gravitational wave, signal processing, astrophysics, supercomputing, real-time search
Program Leader
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linqing.wen
@uwa.edu.au

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Dr Chunnong Zhao
Laser interferometer, Parametric instability, Optomechanics.
Node Leader

chunnong.zhao
@uwa.edu.au

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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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