About

I am an OzGrav Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Swinburne University of Technology searching for radio transients, but with an interest in all transient behaviour.

I am the Principal Investigator on a project to observe radio afterglows of gravitational wave events with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, for which we have been allocated 750 hours of observing time. I am also a member of the JAGWAR collaboration, which uses the worlds leading radio facilities for gravitational wave follow-up and am a co-Investigator on proposals with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, the Very Large Array, and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

You can find my CV here and read about my publications, teaching and outreach below.

Publications

I have written 4 first-author papers and am a co-author on 18 more. My h-index is 10 with over 3500 total citations. I also regularly publish transients results circulated via the Astronomer’s Telegram and the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network.

An ADS library containing my refereed publications can be found here, while summaries of all of my publications can be found here. Some highlights can be found below

An ASKAP search for a radio counterpart to the first high-significance neutron star-black holemerger LIGO/Virgo S190814bv

A turnover in the radio lightcurve of GW170817

Constraining properties of neutron star merger outflows with radio observations

Teaching

Along with general tuition of various undergraduate physics courses, I helped develop Data Driven Astronomy, offered by the University of Sydney via Coursera, which was awarded The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Educational Engagement and Innovation in 2018.

I have also developed modules for the GROWTH Winter School 2018 and GROWTH Summer School 2019 that teach students how to use emcee for lightcurve fitting. I presented a similar module as an invited speaker at the 5th SKA Summer School at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.

Outreach and Media

I have a strong passion for communicating my research to the public and have had the opportunity to do that at Sydney Observatory since 2016. In 2017 I spent two weeks working as the CAASTRO Astronomer In Residence at Uluru, and have given talks to high schools, undergraduate students and the general public throughout the course of my PhD. I recently gave a Q&A about my work titled “Bursts, Jets and Waves: Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves and Light.”

You can find a writeup about my search for a radio counterpart to GW190814bv here.

My involvement in the first discovery of a neutron star merger attracted national media attention, including articles in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Conversation.

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