ICRAR’s research students will be the future astronomers, engineers and data scientists working around the globe in a variety of fields.
We have a strong commitment to providing the best research training and an environment in which our talented students will thrive.
PhD Student
E: benjamin.burridge@icrar.org
I am a part-time PhD Student with the Accretion Physics and Slow Transients group at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy. My Supervisors are Prof. James Miller-Jones, Prof. Arash Bahramian and Dr. Steve Prabu. My PhD project is currently titled “Relativistic Jets from Feeding Black Holes in our Galaxy”.
Student - PhD
PhD Student working on high redshift galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Student - PhD
Shih Ching is a graduate student at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA). His research involves the application of Bayesian techniques to the analysis of astronomical time-series, namely light curves from radio, optical, and X-ray surveys.
He is also the Secretary of the WA Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) and delivers R training as a certified Carpentries Instructor.
Student - PhD
P: +61431517711
A PhD student at Curtin University who did their undergraduate degree in Bachelors of Science (Physics-Astronomy). Focused on pulsar based astronomy and hoping to be a pulsar purist.
Student - PhD
P: 0448952800
Hi, I am a PhD student at CIRA/CSIRO studying star-formation properties in nearby star-forming galaxies. I am currently a part of the WALLABY team working on the resolved radio continuum and infrared-radio correlation properties of the Eridanus supergroup to see whether we can observe the effects of the group environment.
My future work will involve comparing star forming galaxies which exhibit low frequency turnovers (primarily due to free-free absorption) to those that don’t and seeing how their star-formation properties differ.
Student - PhD
First degree and PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Leeds
Postdoc at the University of Wales
8 years as Research Engineer / Senior Research Engineer with BHP Research & BHP Steel in Melbourne and Wollongong, NSW
6 journal papers, 9 conference presentations, 38 internal industry technical reports from this first research career
3 years as IS superintendent with BHP Steel
2 years as Systems Development Manager with the Open Polytechnic of NZ
7 years as web development consultant / Manager of Data Management in NZ government, departments of Eduction, Health and Environment
4 years in Information Management in WA resources industries
10 years in a variety of roles with Chevron Australia, including 2 years on site on Onslow (WA)
PhD student
E: angiraben.mahida@postgrad.curtin.edu.au
I am a full-time PhD candidate with the Accretion Physics and Slow Transients group at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy. My research focuses on hunting for black holes and neutron stars in star clusters using ultra-deep radio imaging techniques.
Student - PhD
E: ayden.mccann@research.uwa.edu.au
Currently conducting research as a PhD student with the Astrophotonics group at ICRAR-UWA under the supervision of Dr Shane Walsh, Dr David Gozzard and Dr Sascha Schediwy on the development of mobile optical ground stations for next generation space science and communications
PhD Candidate
E: nicholas.pritchard@icrar.org
Previously a research software engineer working in the Data-Intensive Astronomy team on the Square Kilometre Array Scientific Data Processing system.
Student - PhD
P: 08 9266 4670
Degree/Thesis Title: Constraining the dying phase of Radio galaxies with the GLEAM-X radio survey.
Student - PhD
I am currently a PhD student at the Curtin node of ICRAR.
Craft – Protecting semiconductor devices and systems from high power microwave radiation effects.
Student - PhD
I am a third-year PhD student working on galaxy kinematics with the largest Integral-Field Spectroscopic (IFS) Surveys in the nearby Universe: SAMI and MaNGA.
My research has focused on the following topics:
– Understanding the origin and characteristics (timescale, magnitude) of stellar-gas kinematic misalignments.
– Analysing the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation in the nearby Universe for a large representative sample with no morphological selection, and quantifying:
the physical causes of scatter in the TF;
the variation of the TF at different radii for both stars and gas – are these components in different states of dynamical equilibrium
– Computing the velocity function in the nearby Universe for a large representative sample, and using it to constrain the baryon content in the nearby Universe
PhD student
E: hugh.roxburgh@postgrad.curtin.edu.au
Hey! I’m a first year PhD student at CIRA working with the CRAFT collaboration on Fast Radio Burst cosmology. Currently, I’m investigating their host galaxies in neutral hydrogen and hydrodynamical simulations to better understand the observed variation in the FRB population.
Student - PhD
P: 0423205255
Thesis title: The relationship between cold gas and its environment at different scales
Student - Masters
I am a Masters research student at ICRAR, UWA, working on the MAUVE (Muse and Alma Unvielling Virgo Environment) survey, which contains the observational data for the galaxies in the Virgo environment, using powerful telescopes such as MUSE (Muti Unit Spectrocopic Explorer) and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array).
My project is to test a unique and new approach to tracing nutral gas in the Virgo cluster galaxies, in the ISM with the same spatial resolution as optical data, utilizing the sodium doublet (Na-D) absorption lines that fall under the yellow part of the visible spectrum, which makes it easier to observe.
Student - PhD
P: 08 6488 1684
Dissertation Title: Probing the co-evolution of galaxies and their environment over the last 8 billion years
Student - PhD
Brandon is a PHD candidate at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. He is interested in the large scale structure of the universe, and what this can tell us about the fundamental cosmology and physics of our universe.
Student - PhD
E: angelica.waszewski@icrar.org
A PhD student at a radio astronomy institute trying to make a break in the heliophysics community!
Student - PhD
E: matthew.wilkinson@icrar.org
P: 08 6488 1127
I am currently working Claudia Lagos and Aaron Ludlow on galaxy morphology in EAGLE in preparation for EAGLE-XL.
Student - PhD
I am a third year PhD student at the Curtin node of ICRAR and a scholar at the Forrest Research Foundation.
My thesis is titled ‘Real-time Imaging of Jets from Accreting Black Holes’.
My areas of interest are relativistic jets, black holes, X-ray binaries, very long baseline interferometry, and novel analysis of interferometric data.