Khaled Said
- Dr, Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Queensland
I earned my PhD from the University of Cape Town in July 2017. Following that, I served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University from July 2017 until May 2020, and subsequently continued my postdoctoral research within the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Queensland. Currently, I hold the position of OzGrav2 Research Fellow within the same department at the University of Queensland.
My overall research aim is to create the first all-sky dynamic map of the local universe, including both positions and velocities. These maps are crucial to study precision cosmology, as our local universe affects all the light we see from distant galaxies and might bias all late-universe measurements
In 2017, as a recognition of my PhD research, I was awarded the prestigious Gruber Foundation Fellowship by the IAU. This is a highly competitive fellowship of 50,000 USD awarded annually to an extremely promising young astrophysicist to promote the science of cosmology (only one Fellowship is awarded annually world-wide).
Over the past five years, I have actively contributed to several major international collaborations, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, the Australian WALLABY galaxy survey, and the 4MOST Hemisphere Survey, where I lead the efforts related to peculiar velocity research.
Apart from my involvement in major collaborations, I have been awarded observing time as a chief investigator on various telescopes. This includes 400 hours over 39 nights on the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, 931 hours over 93 nights on the Nancay Radio Telescope in France, and 37 full nights on the Japanese Near-Infrared Telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory.
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