Astrophysics people
Anthony Arnold
Research interests: tree and direct N-body simulations, black holes and gravitational radiation.
Email: anthony.arnold@uqconnect.edu.au
Rianna Bell
Research interests: Reconstruction of local density and peculiar velocity fields, understanding Large Scale Structure (LSS) formation and galaxy bias, alternate theories of gravity and their impact on structure formation. Email: rianna.bell@uq.net.au
Ashlee Caddell
Research interests: Particle dark matter with a focus on possible interactions with Standard Model particles and subsequent detections routes.
Email: ashlee.caddell@uq.net.au
Ryan Camilleri
Research interests: Supernova Cosmology, exotic cosmological models and using alternate methods to investigate the Hubble Constant.
Email: r.camilleri@uq.net.au
Matt Craigie
Research interests: Studying the distribution of galaxies to reveal the properties of the universe using machine learning and other modern data analysis techniques.
Email: m.craigie@uq.edu.au
Pratyush Das
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Machine Learning, N-body Simulations, integral field spectroscopy, and photometry.
Email: p.das@uq.edu.au
Scot Devlin (MPhil)
Research interests: Using stellar streams to map the Milky Way's dark matter halo, N-body simulations, and ultra-faint dwarf galaxy detection as a probe for testing concordance cosmologies.
Email: s.devlin@uq.edu.au
Shashank Dholakia
Research interests: Exoplanets and stars, detection and characterization. Developing and using differentiable models to interpret observations of planets, stars and their interactions.
Email: s.dholakia@uq.edu.au
Georgia Hartzenberg
Research interests: Extragalactic astrophysics with a focus on galaxy metallicity/chemical content and environment (groups/clusters), low and high redshift, photometry and spectroscopy.
Email: g.hartzenberg@uq.net.au
Yan Lai
Research interests: The peculiar velocity of the galaxy, the growth of the large-scale structures in the universe compressing data in future surveys and the wide-angle effect on peculiar velocity surveys.
Email: y.lai1@uq.net.au
Ellie Leitinger
Research interests: metallicities and kinematics of globular clusters, spectroscopy and photometry, active galactic nuclei and reverberation mapping of black holes.
Email: ellen.leitinger@uq.net.au
Hugh McDougall
Research interests: Active Galactic Nuclei, Bayesian Statistics and modelling of signals as Gaussian Processes.
Email: h.mcdougall@uq.edu.au
Liana Rauf
Research interests: Gravitational wave astronomy, semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation and evolution and stellar population models.
Email: l.rauf@uq.net.au
Caitlin Ross
Research interests: Galaxy peculiar velocities and what these can tell us about gravity and structure formation. As well as how exotic gravitational models affect cosmological tensions.
Email: c.ross1@uq.net.au
Irina Troitskaya
Research interests: Physics of stars and the planetary systems in orbit. Working on telescope observations of the brightest stars in the sky; testing, improving and applying methods for recovering ultra-precise observations with NASA's premier planet-hunting telescopes, Kepler and TESS. Email: i.troitskaya@uq.net.au
Abbe Whitford
Research interests: Particle cosmology, neutrinos, Large Scale Structure (LSS) of the universe, galaxy peculiar motions, theoretical and observational cosmology.
Email: a.whitford@uq.net.au
Staff
Tiarna Stehr
Pat Scott
Josh Calcino
Samuel Hinton
Jacobo Asorey
Jason Dossett
Janie Hoormann
Edward Macaulay
Smriti Mahajan
Signe Riemer-Sorensen
Students
2023
Madeline Cross-Parkin (Honours)
Tom Channell - (Honours)
Gary Segal (PhD)
Anthony Carr (PhD)
Chris Chang (PhD)
Aaron Glanville (PhD)
Zac Byrne (PhD)
Andrew Penton (PhD)
Hugh McDougall (Honours)
Caitlin Ross - (Honours)
2022
Ben Carew - (Honours)
Ryan Camilleri (Honours)
Tariq Soliman (Summer project)
Victoria Inselmann - (Honours)
2021
Rebecca Jane Mayes (PhD)
Yuma Decaux (Winter project)
Rianna Bell (Honours)
Curtis Brown (Honours)
Matt Craigie (Honours)
James Freeburn (Honours)
Anna Liang (Honours)
Abbe Whitford (Honours)
Simon Deeley (PhD)
2020
Ashlee Caddell (Honours)
Yan Lai (Honours)
Liana Rauf (Honours)
Iñigo Saez Casares (MSc)
Joshua Calcino (PhD)
Samuel Hinton (PhD)
2019
Aaron Glanville (Honours)
Ellie Leitinger (Honours)
Tyler Philp (Honours)
Matthew Wilkinson (Honours)
2018
Anthony Carr (Honours)
Chenyu He (Masters)
Chris Johnson (Honours)
Andrew Penton (Honours)
2017
Sam Cree (Honours)
Harry Hobson (Honours)
Pouria Khalaj (PhD)
Henning Schmitz (Honours)
Merryn Taylor (Honours)
2016
Zac Byrne (Honours)
Troy Cobb (Honours)
Joshua Calcino (Honours)
Daniel Muthukrishna (Honours)
Natalia Eiré Sommer (Honours)
2015
Anthea King (PhD)
Colin MacLaurin (Masters)
Joel Pfeffer (PhD)
Jacob Seiler (Honours)
Sarah Thomson (Honours)
2014
Caitlin Adams (Honours)
Mathew Bonanno (Honours)
Sarah Hegarty (Honours)
Samuel Hinton (Honours)
Ewan McAndrew (Honours)
Kyle Muzycka (Honours)
Conor O'Neill (Honours)
Mikkel Stockmann (Honours)
Sarah Sweet (PhD)
Adam Thomas (Honours)
Carolyn Wood (Honours)
2012
Brendan Griffen (PhD)
Samuel Peet (Honours)