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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding opportunities >
      • 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 >
      • 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 & Outreach
    • Education and Public Outreach
    • Graphics and Videos
    • apps
  • Events
    • OzGrav-2
    • Upcoming and Past Events >
      • 2020 OzGrav Annual Retreat
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
  • Contact Us

Postdoctoral ReseacherS and Students

OzGrav Postdoctoral Researchers & research scientists

Swinburne University of Technology

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Dr Andrew Cameron
pulsar searching, pulsar timing, relativistic systems, algorithm development, outreach
Supervisor:
A/Prof Ryan Shannon
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Dr Dougal Dobie
Multiwavelength transients, Radio Imaging, Machine Learning
Supervisor:
Prof Jeff Cooke
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Dr Chris Flynn
Real-time glitch and timing noise monitors for the UTMOST 2D and MeerKAT telescopes
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Dr Daniel Reardon
Pulsar timing, interstellar scintillation
Supervisors:
Prof Matthew Bailes and A/Prof Ryan Shannon
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Dr Simon Stevenson
binary stellar evolution gravitational waves
​Supervisor:
Prof Matthew Bailes
and Prof Jarrod Hurley
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Dr Jielai Zhang
Multi-wavelength imaging, deep-learning, instrumentation, time-domain
Supervisor:
Prof Jeff Cooke

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 Sheon Chua
Quantum optics, Optomechanics, Interferometry, Precision measurement
Supervisor:
Dr Bram Slagmolen
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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 Lyle Roberts
Interferometry Sensing Signal Processing FPGA
Supervisor:
Prof Daniel Shaddock

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Dr Daniel Toyra
Laser interferometry modelling, quantum optics, beam distortions
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Dr Andrew Wade
Quantum optics precision metrology laser
Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland
and Prof Daniel Shaddock
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Dr Karl Wette
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, NEUTRON STARS, PULSARS, DATA ANALYSIS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS​
Supervisor:
Prof Susan Scott

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 Ryosuke Hirai
Binary evolution, supernovae, stellar mergers, hydrodynamical simulations, dynamics
Supervisor:
Prof Ilya Mandel
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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 Aaron Jones
higher-order modes, optical cavity, sensing, control, design
Supervisor:
Prof Chunnong Zhao
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Jyoti Kaur
Einstein-First, School curriculum, Einsteinian physics, Modern physics
Supervisor:
Prof David Blair
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Dr Fiona Panther
Statistical inference and inverse problems, gamma-rays, microphysicalastronomy, accelerated computing, CBBC pipelines
Supervisor:
Prof Linqing Wen
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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 Huy Tuong Cao
Interferometry, control system, distortion and instability, optical
simulation, adaPtive optics
​Supervisor:
Prof Peter Veitch
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Dr Sebastian Ng
Lasers
​Supervisors:
Prof Peter Veitch & Prof Jesper Munch

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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Jacob Askew
Radio Astronomy, Astrophysics, Pulsar Scintillation
Honours student
Supervisor:
Dr Daniel Reardon
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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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Dr Garry Foran
Instrumentation, optics, detectors, spectroscopy, high-redshift galaxies
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Jeffrey Cooke
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Matt Miles
data science, gravitational waves, pulsars
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof Matthew Bailes
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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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Ari Raidani
Gravitational Wave sources, Binary Evolutions and Cosmology.
Honours student
Supervisor:
Dr Simon Stevenson
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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 A/Prof Ryan Shannon
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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.
Simon Goode
machine learning gravitational waves data
PhD student. Supervisor: A/Prof Jeffrey Cooke

Anilkumar Mailvaganam
Data analysis, Problem solving, Modelling, Dark energy, Black holes
Honours student. Supervisor: Dr Jade Powell

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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James Gardner
Continuous gravitational waves, table-top demonstrations, signalprocessing, internal squeezing, Finesse
Undergraduate student
Supervisor:
Dr Vaishali Aidya
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Ben Grace
Mathematics, physics, modelling, gravitational wave theory
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof Susan Scott
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Dan Gould
Squeezing, Lasers, Optics, Physics, 2 micron
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Nathan Holland
machine learning, control, torsion pendulum
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Dr Robert Ward & 
Prof David McClelland
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Disha Kapasi
cryogenic GW detectors using silicon
PhD student
Supervisor:
Prof David McClelland
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Nutsinee Kijbunchoo
aLIGO, squeezer, instrumentation, optics
PhD student
Supervisor: 
Prof David McClelland
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Emily Rose Rees
Interferometry, Laser Stabilisation, Systems Engineering
PhD student
Supervisor:
Dr Kirk McKenzie
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Callum Sambridge
beam based Light detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
Undergraduate student
Supervisor:
Dr Lyle Roberts
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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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Min Jet Yap
Interferometry, quantum optics, optomechanics, precision metrology
​PhD student
​Supervisors:
Prof David McClelland & Prof Daniel Shaddock

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Ya Zhang
laser frequency metrology, fibre optical sensing, FPGA signal processing
PhD student
Supervisor:
A/Prof Jong Chow
Perry Forsyth
​Instrumentation, Newtonian Noise, Seismic
PhD student. ​Supervisor: Prof David McClelland

Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil
MATLAB, Signal Processing, Digital Systems, Hardware Languages, Control System
PhD student. Supervisor: Dr Kirk McKenzie

Monash University

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Paul Easter
Machine Learning, Binary Neutron Stars, Post merger remnant, numerical relativity