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Background

Currently undertaking a PhD 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 communication.

 

I completed my BSc. double major in Physics and Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Western Australia in 2020. I completed my Master of Physics (Astronomy & Astrophysics) with distinction in 2022.

The WAOGS commissioning control room and CDK700 telescope

Mobile Optical Terminal centred around a Planewave L350 telescope mount

Conference Posters

• McCann, A., Walsh, S., Dix-Matthews, B., Frost, A., Gozzard, D.,   Karpathakis, S., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “Secure, high-speed communications for space”, Astronomical Society of Australia’s Annual Scientific Meeting (ASA2022), Jun. 27- Jul.1, 2022

• McCann, A., Walsh, S., Dix-Matthews, B., Frost, A., Gozzard, D.,   Karpathakis, S., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “Secure, high-speed communications for land, air, sea, and space”, Australian Defence Science Technology and Research Summit (ADSTAR), Jul. 20-22, 2022

• McCann, A., Walsh, S., Dix-Matthews, B., Frost, A., Gozzard, D.,   Karpathakis, S., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “Secure, high-speed communications for land, air, sea, and space”, Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference (IODSC), Aug. 25-26, 2022

• Dix-Matthews, B., Gozzard, D., Karpathakis, S., Walsh, S., McCann, A., Frost, A., S., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “High-precision laser Doppler velocimetry off an airborne target”, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) Dec. 11-16, 2022

Journal Publications

• Ciolfi, R., Stratta, G., Branchesi, M., Gendre, B., Grimm, S., Harms, J., Lamb, G.P., Martin-Carrillo, A., McCann, A., Oganesyan, G. and Palazzi, E., 2021. Multi-messenger astrophysics with THESEUS in the 2030s. Experimental Astronomy 52, 245–275 (2021)

• Walsh, S., Frost, A., Howard, L., Gozzard, D., Karpathakis, S., Dix-Matthews B., Gravestock, C., McCann, A., and Schediwy, S., “Angle-of-arrival variability of retroreflected lasers despite atmospheric reciprocity,” Opt. Lett. 47, 1920-1923 (2022)

• Walsh, S., Karpathakis, S., McCann, A., Dix-Matthews B., Frost, A., Gozzard, D., Gravestock, C., and Schediwy, S., “Demonstration of 100 Gbps Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications at LEO Tracking Rates” Sci Rep 12, 18345 (2022) .

• Karpathakis, S., Dix-Matthews B., Walsh, S., McCann, A., Gozzard, D., Frost, A., Gravestock, C., and Schediwy, S., “Ground-to-Drone Optical Pulse Position Modulation Demonstration as a Testbed for Lunar Communications” Drones 7(2), 99  (2023)

• Dix-Matthews B., Gozzard, D., Karpathakis, S., Walsh, S., McCann, A., Frost, A., Gravestock, C., and Schediwy, S., “Towards optical frequency geopotential difference measurements via a flying drone” Optics Express 31(9), 15075 (2023)

• Dix-Matthews B., Gozzard, D., Karpathakis, S., Walsh, S., McCann, A., Frost, A., and Schediwy, S., “Experimental Demonstration of Velocimetry by Actively Stabilized Coherent Optical Transfer” Phys. Rev. Applied 19(5), 054018 (2023)

Conference Papers

• Gendre, B., Stratta, G., Boer, M. and McCann., A, “Ultra long GRBs: Current and Future Prospects”, Proceedings of Conference Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Jul. 5-10, 2021

• Walsh, S., Frost, A., Anderson, W., Digney, T., Dix-Matthews, B., Gozzard, D., Gravestock, C., Howard, L., Karpathakis, S., McCann, A. and Schediwy, S., “The Western Australian Optical Ground Station”, Proceedings of the International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Sept. 26-29, 2021

• Karpathakis, S., Dix-Matthews, B., Walsh S., McCann, A., Gozzard, D., S., Frost, A., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “Western Australian Optical Ground Station Readiness for Lunar Communication”, Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Sept. 18-22, 2022

• Dix-Matthews, B., Walsh, S., Karpathakis, S., Frost, A., McCann, A., Gozzard, D., S., Gravestock, C. and Schediwy, S., “High-speed free-space optical communications via an airborne pseudo-satellite”, Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Sept. 18-22, 2022

• Walsh, S., Choung, K., Dix-Matthews, B., Frost, A., Gozzard, D., Gravestock, C., Karpathakis, S., Kriele, M., McCann, A. and Schediwy, S., “Development of Western Australia’s Optical Space Communications Capabilities”, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) Dec. 11-16, 2022

Research outside of ICRAR

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at UWA

Under the supervision of Dr Bruce Gendre:

• Reduction and analysis of NASA-Swift and ESA-XMM X-ray Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) data.

• Ultra-long GRB X-ray data simulations for the proposed ESA THESEUS mission’s yellow-book publication and associated paper.

• Evaluative study of Point Spread Function (PSF) corrections to Zadko telescope GRB optical data.

University of Science and Technology China (USTC)

Under the supervision of Professor Guilin Lui:

• Captained a group research project on the spectrographic analysis of quasar outflows using Integrated Field Unit (IFU) data

Awards/Grants

University of Science and Technology China (USTC)

 

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