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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

Previous OzGrav members / ALUMNI

OzGrav ALUMNI

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Dr Lucy Strang
Multi-messenger studies of BNS post-merger remnants
PhD at University of Melbourne, completed 2022, then Data Scientist in the data science and emerging technologies team at the Bureau of Meteorology
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Dr Sundae Xu Chen
Optomechanics
Postdoctoral researcher at UWA 2017-2022, then Research engineer at OncoRes Medical
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Dr Benjamin Neil
Photonic crystal resonators
PhD student at UWA, completed 2022, then Pacific Light and Hologram, USA
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Dr James Spollard
Optical phased array, link acquisition, digital signal processing
PhD student at ANU, completed in 2022, then Vai Photonics / Advanced Navigation
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Dr Alexei Ciobanu
Modelling, "finesse", experimental, lasers
PhD at the University of Adelaide finishing in 2022, then Data science and R&D at Australia Post, Melbourne
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Dr Lyle Roberts
Interferometry Sensing Signal Processing FPGA
Postdoctoral Researcher at ANU 2017 - 2022, CEO and founder at Vai Photonics 2021, then spin-out company Vai is acquired by Advanced Navigation in May 2022.
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Dr Rahul Choudhary
Education and public outreach, Einsteinian physics education research
University of Western Australia PhD completed in 2021 with Einstein First group, then Research Assistant in 2021 and 2022.
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Dr Moritz Huebner
Parameter estimation, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Physics
Monash University PhD student, completed in 2021, then Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Melbourne, then Software Engineer at TNG Technology Consulting
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Dr George Howitt
Neutron stars, pulsar glitches, population synthesis
University of Melbourne PhD student, then Postdoctoral Researcher at  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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Dr Sara Webb
Supernovae, Gravitational Waves, FRBs, GRBs, Kilonovae
Swinburne University of Technology PhD student, completed in 2021, then Postdoctoral Researcher
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Dr Francisco Hernandez Vivanco
False-alarm-rate, statistics, multi-messenger
Monash University PhD student, completed 2021, then Senior Software Engineer at ANSTO Melbourne
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Ethan Payne
Programming, Bayesian Inference, Higher Order Modes, General Relativity
Honours student at Monash in 2020, then Research Assistant at ANU in 2021, then moving to USA to start PhD
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Dr Qi (ChiChi) Chu
Compact binary coalescence search pipeline
Postdoc at UWA 2017 to 2021, then Data Scientist at Woodside / StepChange

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Dr Joshua McCann
Low-frequency; seismic; isolation; instrumentation; control
PhD student at UWA 2017 to 2021, then Lead/Senior Engineer, VEEM, Manufacturing
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Dr Daniel Toyra
Realistic modelling and design of advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors
Postdoctoral Researcher at ANU 2019 to 2021
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Dr Robert Ward
Optics, Controls systems, Space instrumentation, Interferometry
Associate Investigator at ANU 2017 to 2021
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Dr Michael Page
Quantum optics, optomechanics, noise
PhD student at UWA completing in 2019, then Postdoctoral researcher at NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo
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Craig Ingram
CubeSats with University of Adelaide and CSIRO
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Dr Hengxin Sun
Postdoctoral researcher at UWA 2019 and 2020, then Academic Researcher, Shanxi University, China.
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Colm Talbot
Data analysis, compact binaries
PhD student at Monash completing early 2020
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Dr Juan Calderon Bustillo
Binary black holes, black hole spectroscopy, parameter estimation, numerical relativity
Postdoctoral researcher at Monash University in 2019, then Research Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Fabian Zuluaga
Black holes, particles, teaching
PhD student at UWA in 2019, then PhD student at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Dr Alejandro Vigna-Gomez
Binaries, compact objects, high-energy astrophysics, transients
PhD student at Monash in 2019, then DARK Fellow at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Denmark
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Dr David McManus
Low Frequency, Newtonian noise, Early Earthquake Warning, Gravimetry.
PhD student at ANU completing in 2019, then postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology UNSW Canberra Australia
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Dr Jian Liu
Parametric instability, high power laser
PhD student at UWA in 2018, then postdoctoral researcher at Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover Germany
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Joel Bosveld
Postdoctoral Researcher on Data analysis and optimisationat UWA in 2018, then Submarine Capability Analyst at Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology group - Australia.
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Lisa Drummond
PhD student 2017 and 2018 at University of Melbourne, then MIT for PhD in gravitational waves
Neutron stars, superfluids, pulsar glitches
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Alex Foppoli
PhD student at UWA
Einsteinian physics, physics education, gravitational waves, public outreach.
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Hui Guo
PhD student at UWA, then PhD student at Institute of Opto-Electronics ,Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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 Rhys Jones
Honours student 2018 at UWA
Optical springs, radiation pressure forces
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Dr Grant David Meadors
Postdoctoral researcher 2018 at Monash University
Gravitational waves, data analysis, observation
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Tarquin Ralph
PhD student completing in 2018 at ANU
Digital interferometry, wavefront sensing
Chris Samuel
High Performance Computing Systems Engineer at Swinburne in 2018, now NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
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Jordan Smith
Honours student 2018 at ANU
Adaptive optics, instrumentation, space, lasers
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Igor Andreoni
PhD student 2018 at Swinburne University of Technology, then Postdoctoral researcher at Caltech
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Sylvia Biscoveanu
Postdoctoral researcher 2017 and 2018 at Monash University
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Georgia Mansell
PhD student 2018 at Australian National University, then Post Doc/Commissioner at LIGO MIT Laboratory, USA
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Dr Letizia Sammut
Associate Investigator
Postdoctoral researcher 2017 at Monash University
April 2018 onwards - Senior Scientific Software Engineer for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), which runs the Australian synchrotron facility.
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Michael Ponds
Gravitational Wave signal processing intern 2017
University of Western Australia
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Sam Francis
Space interferometry, metrology, instrumentation
PhD student at Australian National University until Jan 2018
NASA - JPL and collaborating on LISA


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​© 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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