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 2019, organised by research area.
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Projects by Research Area
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Accretion Physics
- Black Holes in the Weak Accretion Regime
- X-ray Ionised Nebulae in Metal Poor Dwarf Galaxies
- Do Powerful Millisecond-Bursts from Across the Universe Repeat?
- Galaxy Evolution of the Powerful Radio-Quiet AGN Population
- Observing Radio Jets from the Most Luminous Extragalactic Black Holes Discovered by eROSITA
- The Explosive Outbursts of Black Holes
- Astronomical Instrumentation
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Astrophotonics
- Synchronisation of the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope
- Building the Worlds’ First Long-Baseline Optical Astronomical Interferometer
- Coherent Free-Space Laser Links for Space Applications
- Development of an Optical Phased Array to Power Near-lightspeed Interstellar Travel
- Seismic Acquisition using Distributed Acoustic Sensing in an Urban Environment
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Computational Theory and Modelling
- 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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Gas and Feedback in Galaxies
- The life cycle of radio galaxies
- Exploiting the next-generation radio surveys with spectral stacking
- Tracing star formation in galaxies with radio imaging
- Cluster formation and destruction in disk galaxies
- HII dynamics of nearby galaxies
- Deep Surveys with Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders
- An optical census of the structure of HI selected galaxies
- Faint Astronomical signals from galaxies
- Galaxies and the Cosmic Web
- The assembly of mass over cosmic time
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Galaxy evolution in the Norma Cluster
- The evolution of Green DRAGNs
- Supernova 1987A: what a blast!
- Surveying the Radio Universe
- The role of the gas cycle in galaxy evolution
- 3D modelling of nearby galaxies
- Hot Spots in the Andromeda Galaxy
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Multi-Wavelength and Spectroscopic Surveys
- Astrophysical constraints on Dark Matter
- The Evolution of Energy, Mass and Structure over all Time
- A 3D View on Galaxy Evolution
- Probing the co-evolution of galaxies and their environment over the last 8 billion years
- Galaxy transformation in the local Universe
- The connection between dark and visible matter in nearby galaxies
- Commissioning / Development of the StarFox Telescope for Deep Sky Imaging
- Decomposing the universe with Profit
- Towards a comprehensive modelling of the emission by galaxies near and far
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MWA Science
- Advanced Calibration and Imaging with the MWA
- Studying Galactic Centre with Low Frequency Radio Recombination Lines
- Characterising the ionosphere over the Murchison Radio astronomy Observatory
- A Census of Radio Galaxy Components via Measurements of Interplanetary Scintillation
- Detecting nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves with current and future radio telescopes
- Rapid Follow-Ups of Fast Radio Bursts with the MWA
- An Effective Cross-matching Framework for Catalogues and Images
- HI Absorption in high-z radio galaxies
- Combining GLEAM and ATLBS to discover the history of active galactic nuclei
- Identifying optical counterparts of radio sources using citizen science
- Fast follow-up of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Murchison Widefield Array
- Finding Pulsars with a Next-generation Low-frequency Radio Telescope
- From Low-frequency Pulsar Observations to Interstellar Holography
- GLEAM-X: Exploring the Universe in Radio Colour
- How Does the Cosmic Microwave Background Impact the First Radio Galaxies?
- Machine Learning Techniques in Radio Astronomy
- Opening a Window on the Ionised Interstellar Medium of Nearby Galaxies
- Probing cosmic explosions and unveiling extreme astrophysics using rapid-response radio telescopes
- Probing the Environment of the Most Massive Proto-cluster
- Radio Morphology Evolution of Radio Sources at Low Frequency
- Radio Recombination Lines with the MWA
- Real-time Signal Processing and High Time Resolution Science with the MWA and EDA Radio Telescopes
- Searching for Optical Transients with the Desert Fireball Network
- Searching for the Most Massive Clusters Around Radio Galaxies
- “The A-Team”: Low-frequency Observations of the Brightest Radio Galaxies in the Southern Sky
- Tracing the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
- Weighing Proto-clusters in the Early Universe
- Searching for transients and variables in the Galactic and Extragalactic All-Sky MWA (GLEAM) survey
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