Aquib Moin

Hi, my name is Aquib Moin

I commenced my studies at Curtin as a PhD researcher in 2008. In 2005, I obtained my Masters degree in Advanced techniques in Radio Astronomy and Space Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. From 2004-05 I spent about a year at the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON) in the Netherlands, where I did my masters thesis work in Radio Interferometry.

Being at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), I am currently engaged in a PhD research project related to the observational study of radio transient sources associated with Gamma-ray Bursts and X-ray binaries. This involves high-resolution and high-sensitivity radio observations of these short-lived events using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) near Sydney. Successful radio detections will be followed up by the network of telescopes in Australia using the technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). As a part of this PhD project, I am also working towards technical developments for real-time VLBI or e-VLBI. My project supervisor here at Curtin is Professor Steven Tingay and Dr. Chris Phillips at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF).

In addition to my research, I am also a regular member of the ATNF's VLBI observing team, which conducts VLBI experiments with Australian radio telescopes 3-4 times a year. During my PhD I also had a chance to attend the e-VLBI conference held in Bonn, Germany and the ATNF Synthesis Imaging School at ATCA in Narrabri (near Sydney).

What I enjoy most about my research is that it enables me to ponder over and explore the mysterious and unknown phenomena/objects in the Universe and to work with powerful and advanced telescopes and tools so as to probe these events.