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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding oppurtunities >
      • Sponsorship request form
      • International Visitor funding program
      • Student and Postdoc funding
      • Carer grant
      • GWIC 3G Funding
      • Research Translation Seed Grants
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Annual Reports
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students
    • 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 & Outreach
    • Education and Public Outreach
    • A Short history of gravitational waves
    • Graphics and Videos
    • apps
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Events >
      • ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
  • Contact Us
  • Intranet

Postdoctoral ReseacherS and Students

OzGrav Postdoctoral Researchers & research scientists

Swinburne University of Technology

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Dr Jade Powell
gravitational waves, Data analysis, Astrophysics
Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes
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Dr Daniel Reardon
Pulsar timing, interstellar scintillation
Supervisors:
Prof Matthew Bailes and Dr Ryan Shannon
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Dr Ryan Shannon
Pulsars Timing Arrays, Radio Transients
Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes
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Dr Simon Stevenson
binary stellar evolution gravitational waves
​Supervisor: Prof Matthew Bailes / A/Prof Jarrod Hurley

Australian National University

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Dr Vaishali Adya
interferometry, control systems, optical layouts, simulations, squeezing
​Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Paul Altin
Gravitational wave detection, optomechanics, squeezing
​Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Seo-Won Chang
Optical transients, time-domain survey
Supervisors:
Dr Christian Wolf and Prof Susan Scott
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Dr Johannes Eichholz
Thermal noise, cryogenics, laser stabilization, FPGA, controls
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Terry McRae
Metrology, Quantum Optics, Opto-mechanics, photonics
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Karl Wette
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, NEUTRON STARS, PULSARS, DATA ANALYSIS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS​
Supervisor:
Prof Susan Scott
Dr Lyle Roberts
Interferometry Sensing Signal Processing FPGA
Supervisor: Prof Daniel Shaddock

Monash University

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Dr Kendall Ackley
postmerger neutron stars, equations of state
Supervisor:
A/Prof Duncan Galloway
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Dr Juan Calderon Bustillo
Binary Black Holes, Black Hole Spectroscopy, Searches, Parameter Estimation, Numerical Relativity
Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Dr Rory Smith
Bayesian inference, gravitational-
wave searches, high-
performance computing, big data, scalable algorithms
Lecturer
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​Dr Xingjiang Zhu
gravitational waves, pulsars, black holes, neutron stars
​Supervisor:
 A/Prof Eric Thrane

University of Western Australia

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​Dr Xu (Sundae) Chen
optomechanics
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Dr Qi (ChiChi) Chu
Compact binary coalescence search pipeline
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Dr Bruce Gendre
EM observations, GRB, binaries, data analysis, follow-up
Supervisor:
A/Prof David Coward
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Dr Joris van Heijningen
Controls, Vibration Isolation, Optics, Sensors, OutreacH
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Dr John Winterflood
Vibration isolation, Electronics & Control

university of ADELAide

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Dr Daniel Brown
Optics, numerical modelling, control systems, optomechanics
​Supervisors:
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
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Dr Sebastian Ng
Lasers
​Supervisors:
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof Jesper Munch
Dr Miftar Ganija
​Supervisors: Prof Peter Veitch & Prof Jesper Munch
University of Adelaide

University of Melbourne

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Dr Patrick Meyers
Data Analysis, Persistent gravitational waves
Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Dr Hannah Middleton
gravitational waves, data analysis, outreach
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Dr Meg Millhouse
gravitational waves, data analysis, bayesian inference
Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Dr Sofia Suvorova

OzGrav Students

Swinburne University of Technology

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Poojan Agrawal
Globular Clusters, Stellar Dynamics, Binaries
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Debatri Chattopadhyay
binary black holes & millisecond pulsars,NBODY, population synthesis
​PhD student
​Supervisor: A/Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Jacqueline Musiov
Transients, Visualisation, Deeper wider faster
Undergraduate student
​Supervisors:
A/Prof Jeffrey Cooke and A/Prof Chris Fluke
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Nandini Sahu
Galaxy structure and Evolution, supernova remnants, gravitational lensing
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Alister Graham
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Rahul Sengar
relativistic binary pulsars, data analysis
PhD student
Supervisors:
Prof Matthew Bailes and Dr Ryan Shannon
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Thomas Venville
Binary neutron stars, kilonovae, pulsars
Undergraduate student
Supervisors:
Prof Matthew Bailes and Dr Jade Powell
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Sara Webb
supernovae, GWs, FRBs, GRBs, Kilonovae 
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Jeffrey Cooke
Read Debatri's article about the 2017 discoveries and her research work as a PhD student.

Australian National University

David McManus was a finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) finals at ANU in 2018. Watch his talk about the Music of Gravity.  
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Nathan Holland
machine learning, control, torsion pendulum
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Dr Robert Ward & 
Prof David McClelland
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Nutsinee Kijbunchoo
aLIGO, squeezer, instrumentation, optics
PhD student
Supervisor: 
Prof David McClelland
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David McManus
Low Frequency, Newtonian noise, Early Earthquake Warning, Gravimetry
​​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Dr Bram Slagmolen & Prof David McClelland
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Lauren Sarre
optics, quantum, communication, instrumentation, nonlinear
​Honours student
​Supervisors: ​
Prof David McClelland and Dr Robert Ward
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Paul Sibley
Digital Interferometry, Optical Phased Array, Coherent Beam Combining
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof Daniel Shaddock
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James Spollard
Optical phased array, link acquisition, digital signal processing
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock

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Layla Steed
precision measurement, computer programming, fabry-perot
Honours student
Supervisor:
Dr Paul Altin
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Min Jet Yap
Interferometry, quantum optics, optomechanics, precision metrology
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock

Perry Forsyth
​Instrumentation, Newtonian Noise, Seismic
PhD student
​Supervisor: Prof David McClelland
Australian National University
Ben Grace
Honours student
Mathematics, physics, modelling, gravitational wave theory
Supervisors: Prof Susan Scott and Dr Karl Wette

Monash University

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Paul Easter
Machine Learning, Binary Neutron Stars, Post merger remnant, numerical relativity
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Shanika Galaudage
Neutron stars, Continuous gravitational waves, X-ray binaries
Honours student
Supervisors:
A/Prof Duncan Galloway and Dr Karl Wette
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Boris Goncharov
continuous gravitational waves, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane
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Francisco Hernandez
false-alarm-rate, statistics, multi-messenger, outreach
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane
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Moritz Hubner
Parameter estimation, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Physics
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane
and Dr Paul Lasky
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Yik Lun (Travis) Mong
Gravitational Waves, pulsars, data analysis
PhD student
​Supervisor:
A/Prof Duncan Galloway
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Isobel Romero-Shaw
Numerical modelling, astrophysics, programming, scientific writing
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane
and Dr Paul Lasky
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Nikhil Sarin
Neutron Stars, Gamma-ray bursts, post-merger remnants
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Dr Paul Lasky
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Colm Talbot
data analysis, compact binaries
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane
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You Zhiqiang
Data analysis, cosmology
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Eric Thrane

University of Adelaide

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Deeksha Beniwal
Continuous gravitational waves, detector design, active wavefront control
PhD Student
​Supervisors:
Prof David Ottaway & Prof Peter Veitch
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Huy Cao
PhD Student
​Supervisors: ​
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
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Alexei Ciobanu
modelling, "FINESSE", experimental, lasers
PhD student
​Supervisors:​
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway
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Craig Ingram
optics, instrumentation, teaching, outreach
PhD student
​Supervisors:​
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof David Ottaway

University of Melbourne

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Patrick Clearwater
gravitational waves, data analysis, virtual laboratories
PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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Liam Dunn
Gravitational waves, continuous gravitational waves, data analysis
 Masters student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos
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George Howitt
Neutron stars, pulsar glitches, population synthesis
​PhD student
​Supervisor:
Prof Andrew Melatos