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
Searching for long-period and nulling pulsars at Curtin Insitute of Radio Astronomy. Working with the SMART survey and simulating signals to explore the detectability of fast Fourier transform, fast-folding algorithm and single pulse search methods.
Currently on the verge of publishing two papers, one is focused on trying to detect more long-period and nulling puslars and the other is on the discovery of a nulling lon-period pulsar that shows quasiperiodic nulling and sub-pulse drifting.
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 side on Onslow (WA)
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
Student - PhD
P: 0423205255
Thesis title: The relationship between cold gas and its environment at different scales
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
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 currently a PhD student at the Curtin node of ICRAR.
My thesis is titled ‘Real-time Imaging of Black Hole Jets’.