ICRAR is looking for talented, hard-working and motivated students to work on our postgraduate research projects.
Opportunities are available for study at both of ICRAR’s joint venture partners, Curtin University and The University of Western Australia. Specific research projects are available across many areas of astronomy (both theoretical and observational), astronomy engineering and high performance computing.
For further details on an individual project, please feel free to contact the potential supervisor. If you’re considering a PhD with ICRAR then please feel free to get in touch and find out more by emailing education@icrar.org. If you have a chance to visit us in beautiful Perth and see what it’s like to be part of our thriving research community, we would love to host you.
Below we list the projects on offer for commencement in 2021, organised by research area.
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Projects by Research Area
- Accretion Physics and Slow Transients
- Astronomical Instrumentation
- Astrophotonics
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Cosmological Theory
- The formation of individual objects: The Milky-Way, Magellanic Systems and globular clusters
- Large volume simulations of the large scale structure and galaxy formation
- Galaxy formation in state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
- Astrophysical tests of cosmic dark matter
- Simulations of galaxy formation under the microscope
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Data Intensive Astronomy
- Delivering the goods – data-intensive SKA-scale Astronomy
- Interacting with data in SKA Regional Centers
- Searching for HI emission with the SKA using Cloud Computing methods
- Prediction of Observing Conditions at Radio Frequencies
- Gravitational Wave detection with Machine Learning Networks
- Using Blockchain Technology to Enable Reproducible Science
- Epoch of Reionization
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The Local Universe
- Studies of radio galaxies and star formation with GLASS
- Direct measurement of the Initial Mass Function with the Hubble Space Telescope
- How do galaxies get gas to form stars, grow black holes & evolve?
- WALLABY science with ASKAP
- The role of the gas cycle in galaxy evolution
- Nearby galaxies: forming stars, blowing bubbles and looking in 3D
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The Distant Universe
- The Evolution of Energy, Mass and Structure over all Time
- Finding and characterising the most distant galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope.
- A new approach to measuring the baryon budget in the nearby Universe.
- Cosmic Car-Crashes: The last 8 billion years of galaxies smashing into each other
- ProSpect-ing for Galaxies: Modelling all Astrophysical Radiation
- The Physics of Galaxy Evolution Across Space and Time
- Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Surveys
- Towards a comprehensive modelling of the emission by galaxies near and far
- Extragalactic Radio Science
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