OzGrav ALUMNI
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Dr Mike Yui Ming Lau
Binary evolution, stellar dynamics, population synthesis, LIGO, LISA PhD student at Monash University until 2023, then Croucher Fellow (postdoctoral research) at Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies, Germany |
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Paul Sibley
ANU postdoc |
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Vahid Jaberian Hamedan
UWA PhD student until 2023 |
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Chayan Chatterjee
UWA PhD student until 2023, then a postdoc at Vanderbuilt Uni |
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Dr Andrew Cameron
Swinburne postdoc until Aug 2023 |
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Lisa Horsley
Swinburne, Research Coordinator and Outreach Officer until Jul 2023 |
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Dr Shanika Galaudage
Neutron stars, Continuous gravitational waves, X-ray binaries Monash University PhD student until 2023, then Postdoctoral Researcher at at Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France |
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Dr Reinhold Wilcox
Neutron Star Natal Kick Velocity Distribution Monash University PhD until 2023 |
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Dr Avi Vajpeyi
Bayesian Model Comparison to Study the Gravitational Wave Background with GPUs Monash University PhD student until 2023 then Postdoctoral Researcher at Auckland University of Technology |
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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 |
