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.
Student - PhD
E: benjamin.burridge@icrar.org
I am a part-time PhD Student beginning in May 2023 with the Accretion Physics 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
I am a Curtin Astrophysics PhD student working with A/Prof Cathryn Trott and Dr Jack Line. My PhD project will see me working with advanced statistical techniques such as the bispectrum and kernel density estimators, in order to separate out out foreground galaxies from the cosmological hydrogen signal.
I also enjoy long walks on the beach, and have an affinity for precariously attaching myself to boulders.
Student - PhD
PhD Student working on high redshift galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Student - PhD
P: +61431517711
Searching for slow rotating and intermittent pulsars at Curtin Insitute of Radio Astronomy
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
Degree/Thesis Title: Surveillance of Space with Passive Radar using the Murchison Widefield Array
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 completed my Master in Physics and Astronomy at Durham University in 2020.
My thesis was focused on studying the kinematics and dark matter content of galaxies at high (1.6
Student - PhD
P: 0488996488
CRAFT – Exploring the lensing of cosmological transients on nanosecond timescales.
Student - PhD
E: Nicholas.swainston@icrar.org
Degree/Thesis Title: Finding pulsars with a next-generation low-frequency radio telescope
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 (Former)
Degree/Thesis Title: Studying radio properties of short gamma-ray bursts with the Murchison Widefield Array
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’.