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Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy

Students

More information about student projects can be found on the CIRA Wiki

Current PhD & MPhil Students

NameProject
Timothy ColegateTransient Cosmic Phenomena and their Influence on the Design of the SKA Radio Telescope
Owen Giersch
John GoldsmithCosmos, Culture and Landscape
David Herne
Claire HotanTesting Potential New Sites for Optical Telescopes in Australia
Aziz JiwaniActive Antenna Arrays
Kevin (Jun Yi) KoayDetecting Radio Transients at Cosmological Distances and Probing the Ionized Intergalactic Medium
Aquib MoinObservational study of radio transient sources associated with Gamma-ray Bursts and X-ray binaries using ATCA and LBA (e-VLBI/VLBI)
HaydenRampadarath Applications of Wide-Field VLBI
Bruce StansbyDeveloping a Fast Radio Transient Monitoring System
Michael ToddTransient Astronomy using the 1-metre Zadko Telescope

Current Honours & Masters Students

NameProject
Andrew Brown
Jeffrey HodgsonScintillation in Active Galactic Nuclei
Arwin KahlonSimulating the Epoch of Reionisation
Damien MacPhersonDeveloping Educational Activities using a Small Telescope
Thomas RussellA New Phased Array Mode for the Australian LBA
Kranav SharmaHigh Precision Timing of 20 Millisecond Pulsars
Timothy YoungSingle Pulse Studies of the Vela Pulsar

Past PhD & MPhil Students

NameProject
Nino BukilicExtremely wide bandwidth focal plane array receivers for radioastronomy

Past Honours & Masters Students

NameProject
Luis Victorero MoyaInvestigating Sagittarius
Michael ToddAsteroid Tracking and Detection using the Zadko Telescope
Timothy ColegateSimulation of the Configuration and Performance of PAPER, a 32-Element Radio Astronomy Dipole Array