Leadership group

Academic staff

Name Contact details Roles
Dr Rebecca Allen

rebeccaallen@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5014

Co-Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute
Distinguished Professor Matthew Bailes

mbailes@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8782

Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Dr Kirsten Banks kbanks@swinburne.edu.au Lecturer; OzGrav Public Outreach and Engagement
Professor Chris Blake

cblake@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8624

Research and Teaching Faculty
Distinguished Professor Jean Brodie

jbrodie@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 3533

CAS Director
Associate Professor Michelle Cluver

mcluver@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 3484

CAS Deputy Director; Associate Professor, Galaxy Evolution
Professor Jeff Cooke

jeffreycooke@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5392

Professor, OzGrav Chief Investigator; ASTRO 3D Associate Investigator
Professor Warrick Couch

wcouch@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 3875

Distinguished Professor, Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology
Professor Darren Croton

dcroton@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5537

Research Professor, Chief Investigator ARC Centre for Dark Matter Particle Physics
Dr Rebecca Davies rdavies@swinburne.edu.au ARC DECRA Fellow and STACK Technical Secretary
Professor Adam Deller

adeller@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5307

Pulsar / Fast Radio Bursts Researcher
Professor Alan Duffy

aduffy@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 92143876

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Flagship Initiatives
Associate Professor Deanne Fisher

dfisher@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4996

Associate Professor, Galaxies
Professor Christopher Fluke

cfluke@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5828

Director, Advanced Visualisation Laboratory
Professor Duncan Forbes

dforbes@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4392

Professor
Distinguished Professor Karl Glazebrook

kglazebrook@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4384

Distinguished Professor; Laureate Fellow
Professor Alister Graham

agraham@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8784

Former ARC Future Fellow; Associate Investigator with OzGrav; Course Coordinator for Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO)
Professor Jarrod Hurley

jhurley@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5787

Supercomputing Manager; Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) / Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) Lead; OzGrav Node Leader
Associate Professor Glenn Kacprzak

gkacprzak@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4384

Associate Professor, Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Evolution
Professor Virginia Kilborn

vkilborn@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4380

Swinburne Chief Scientist
Associate Professor Ivo Labbe ilabbe@swinburne.edu.au Postdoc Coordinator
Dr Anais Möller amoller@swinburne.edu.au ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer
Emeritus Professor Jeremy Mould

jmould@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4921

Centre for Dark Matter Chief Investigator
Professor Michael Murphy

mmurphy@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5818

COMBS Chief Investigator
Dr Jade Powell

jpowell@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4873

ARC DECRA Fellow in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Professor Emma Ryan-Weber

eryanweber@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4746

Director, ARC Centre for Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D)
Professor Ryan Shannon

rshannon@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5205

Professor
Associate Professor Edward (ned) Taylor

entaylor@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5165

Associate Professor, Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Dr Sara Webb swebb@swinburne.edu.au SAO Course Director, Research in Transient Astronomy,  SYSIC/SHINE Director, Microgravity Program Lead Space Technology and Industry Institute

Adjuncts

Name Roles
Dr Michael Beasley Adjunct Professor Globular Clusters and Stellar Populations Research
Dr Mark Durré Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Anna Ferre-Mateu Adjunct Professor
Dr Jonah Gannon Adjunct Research Fellow
Andrew Jameson Adjunct Industry Fellow
Associate Professor Kurt Liffman SAO Casual Lecturer; Higher Degree Supervisor
Dr Fan Liu Adjunct Research Fellow
Associate Professor Nikki Nielsen Adjunct Associate Professor - Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Evolution
Dr Rhea-Silvia Remus Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Mohsen Shamohammadi Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Robert Song Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Simon Stevenson Adjunct Research Fellow

Postdoctoral fellows

Name Contact details Roles
Dr Tania Barone tbarone@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Emma Carli ecarli@swinburne.edu.au OzGrav 2.0 Postdoc - Pulsars
Dr Harry Chittenden hchittenden@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Associate in JWST Science
Dr Daniel Vaz ddiasvaz@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Chris Flynn

cflynn@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8302

Pulsars, Fast Radio Bursts,  Radio Transients
Dr Leonardo Giani lgiani@swinburne.edu.au OzGrav Research Fellow in Cosmology
Joscha Jahns-Schindler jjahnsschindler@swinburne.edu.au Postdoc – Fast Radio Bursts
Dr Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij lkawinwanichakij@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Associate in JWST Science
Dr Renee Key rkey@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Associate in PBH Detection
Dr Marcus Lower mlower@swinburne.edu.au ARC DECRA Fellow - Pulsars, Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts
Dr Ben McAllister bmcallister@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Fellow - Dark Matter Detection
Dr Toby Mitchell tjmitchell@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Robert Mostoghiu rmostoghiupaun@swinburne.edu.au ARC CDMPP Research Associate, Dark Matter Simulations
Dr Daniel Reardon

dreardon@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 3329

OzGrav Postdoctoral Researcher, Pulsar Timing
Dr Andrei Ristea aristea@swinburne.edu.au COMBS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Astrocombs
Dr Federico Scutti fscutti@swinburne.edu.au Research Fellow in Muon Technologies
Dr Agne Semenaite asemenaite@swinburne.edu.au Research Associate - Cosmology (Galaxy Clustering, Weak Lensing)
Dr Ashley Stock astock@swinburne.edu.au OzGrav Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Yuanming Wang yuanmingwang@swinburne.edu.au Postdoctoral Fellow in Fast Radio Bursts

Technical, Outreach and Support staff

Name Contact details Roles
Eman Ali

eali@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 1234

ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support
Jackie Bondell

jbondell@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8351

OzGrav Education and Outreach Coordinator
Jes Cantos jcantos@swinburne.edu.au ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support
Lauren Carter

laurencarter@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 3398

OzGrav Business and EDI Specialist
Leonie Chevalier lchevalier@swinburne.edu.au Astronomy Project and Service Delivery Support
Patrick Clearwater pclearwater@swinburne.edu.au GWDC / ADACS Software Developer
Dr Dimitra Dannappel ddannappel@swinburne.edu.au Project Officer, OzGrav
Dr Yeshe Fenner

yeshefenner@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8302

Chief Operating Officer, OzGrav
Will Gauvin wgauvin@swinburne.edu.au ADACS Senior Software Engineer
Diana Haikal dhaikal@swinburne.edu.au Senior Communications and Engagement Advisor
Ariadna Hernandez ahernandez@swinburne.edu.au Project Officer, OzGrav
Andrew Jameson

ajameson@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5612

Senior Software Engineer
Carl Knox

cknox@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8891

Digital Media and Marketing Officer
Lewis Lakerink llakerink@swinburne.edu.au Senior Software Engineer
Asher Leslie jaleslie@swinburne.edu.au GWDC / ADACS UX Designer and Software Engineer
Dr David Liptai

dliptai@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5354

ADACS and OzSTAR Astronomy Software Support
Simon Parsons

sparsons@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5913

Centre Coordinator, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Dr Greg Poole

gpoole@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5301

Astronomy Data Science Program Coordinator
Dr Shibli Saleheen

ssaleheen@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5064

ADACS Software Engineer
Ray Seikel rseikel@swinburne.edu.au Senior Software Engineer

Postgraduate students

Name Contact details Roles
Asha Abd aabd@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - JWST anomaly detection
Jasmine Anderson-Baldwin jandersonbaldwin@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Stellar Evolution and Star Clusters
Patricia Arens patricia.a.arens@gmail.com PhD student
Amrita Banerjee amritabanerjee@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Massive dead galaxies in the early history of the Universe, the evolution of the galaxies through cosmic time.
Aryan Bansal aryanbansal@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Adarsh Bathula abathula@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Fast Radio Bursts
Michael Bradley 2496844@student.swinburne.edu.au PhD student
Brian Brady bbrady@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Astro Visualisation
Stephen Brown SMBROWN@swinburne.edu.au Masters by Research - kinematic weak lensing
Hendrik Combrinck hcombrinck@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Pulsar Timing
Sarbeswar Das sarbeswardas@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Circumgalactic Medium
Lewis de Zoete Grundy ldezoetegrundy@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - human-machine interaction
Tyson Dial tdial@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts
Rory Elliott roryelliott@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - High Redshift Galaxy Outflow Studies
Nimas Emas

nemas@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8708

PhD student
Fahmi Muhammad Al Farisy ffarisy@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Galactic Kinematics and Dynamics
Antonia Fernandez Figueroa

antoniafernandez@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 8708

PhD student
Pratyasha Gitika pgitika@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Pulsars
Kaustubh Rajesh Gupta kaustubhrajeshgupta@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Circumgalactic medium
Lydia Haacke lhaacke@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Ultra Diffuse Galaxies
Magdalena Hamel Bravo mhamelbravo@swinburne.edu.au PhD student
Qiaoyu Han qiaoyuhan@swinburne.edu.au Masters by Research - Superconductive film research
Tahlia Hill thill@swinburne.edu.au PhD student
Ray Hilton 103284166@student.swinburne.edu.au Masters by Research student - Optical detection of resident space objects
Tzu-Yin Hsu thsu@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – fast radio bursts
Akhil Jaini ajaini@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student – Fast Radio Bursts
Vanshika Kansal vkansal@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Weak lensing, Dark matter
Atharva Kulkarni adkulkarni@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Pulsar Studies
Brayden Leicester bleicester@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Type Ia Supernovae Host Galaxy Properties
Arsen Levitskiy alevitskiy@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Ultra Diffuse Galaxies
Daniel Lyon djlyon@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Little Red Dots
Ankita Mondal amondal@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – Galactic Archaeology
Aditi Manchanda aditimanchanda@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Galaxies and Transients
Viren Mandaogane vmandaogane@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts 
Saurav Mishra smishra@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Pulsar Timing Arrays
Marco Monaci mmonaci@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Extreme Galaxies
Aaron Myszka amyszka@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Galaxy Evolution
Ashwathi Nair ashwathinair@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student- Stellar astrophysics and Gravitational waves
Andrew Nguyen andnguyen@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Cosmology
Tamsyn O'Beirne tobeirne@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - HI and galaxy environment
Tony Pilkington

tpilkington@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 5787

PhD student - Globular Clusters
Lena Pless lpless@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - High Redshift Galaxies and Student Representative
Sparrow Roch sroch@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Pulsars
Stephanie Rowlands stephanierowlands@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Galaxy outflows at high redshift
Neal Salan nsalan@swinburne.edu.au Masters by Research student
Jade Salisbury jsalisbury@swinburne.edu.au PhD student – FRBs, magnetars, pulsars
Edoardo Santo esanto@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - galactic outflows
Ben Scott benjaminscott@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Solar Twin / Quasar Probes of Electromagnetism's Strength
Alma Sebastian

asebastian@swinburne.edu.au

+61 3 9214 4399

PhD student - XQR30
Matthew Shackleton mshackleton@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - data sonification
Megha Sharma meghasharma@swinburne.edu.au PhD student -  Real-time cosmology via redshift drift
Raj Aryan Singh rasingh@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Axion Dark matter
Jay Smallwood jsmallwood@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - radio telescope instrumentation
Daniel Smith danielsmith@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Micro Optics in Astronomy
Lukas Steinwender lsteinwender@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Foundation models for extreme transients
Mark Suhr msuhr@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Superluminous Supernovae
Paige Taylor paigerosetaylor@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - Axion Dark Matter Detection
Pavan Uttarkar puttarkar@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Fast Radio Bursts
Natasha Van Bemmel nvanbemmel@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Fast Transients
Wesley Van Kempen wvankempen@swinburne.edu.au PhD student
Olivia Vidal Velazquez ovidalvelazquez@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - FINK: Supernovae and machine learning
Hugo Walsh hwalsh@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Visual Discovery 
Tallulah Waterson twaterson@swinburne.edu.au PhD student - Resident Space Objects
Jayde Willingham jwillingham@swinburne.edu.au PhD Student - SED modelling of galaxies
Bailee Wolfe bwolfe@swinburne.edu.au PhD student & OzGrav Outreach Ambassador

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