Astrophysics PhD students

Arshia Anjum

Research Interests: Intermediate Mass Black Hole – Formation, Evolution and Dynamics, Gravitational Waves
 Email: a.anjum@uq.edu.au 

Rianna Bell

search 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.                                          mail: 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

Maddy Cross-Parkin

Research interests: Gravitational wave astronomy and its application in cosmological parameter estimation, particularly in addressing the Hubble tension.
Email: m.crossparkin@uq.net.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

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 

Julian Groth

Research interests: Spatially resolved galaxy evolution in the Local group and its analogues, using integral field spectroscopy and synthetic observations to compare nearby galaxies with Local Group Analogues.
Email: julian.groth@uq.edu.au

Lachlan Hobart

Research interests: Star clusters, binary stars and N-body simulations with a focus on open clusters and their unique properties.
Email: l.hobart@uq.edu.au

Mitchell Hooymans

Research interests: Black hole formation and dynamics in dense stellar systems (including binary black holes and gravitational wave generation), stellar dynamics, N-body simulations, and the physics of compact objects and active galactic nuclei
Email: m.hooymans@uq.edu.au

Hugh McDougall

Research interests: Active Galactic Nuclei, Bayesian Statistics and modelling of signals as Gaussian Processes.
Email: h.mcdougall@uq.edu.au                                      

Pratyush Mishra

 Research interests: Using Supernovae and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to test cosmological models,  particle cosmology.
 Email: pratyush.mishra@uq.edu.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     

 James Simpson

Research interests: Peculiar velocity and its application in bispectrum analyses, Dark energy, large-scale structure theory, peculiar velocities, galaxy surveys.
Email: j.a.simpson@student.uq.edu.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 

Narise Williams

Research interests: Astroparticle physics, direct detection of particle dark matter with atomic systems.
Email: narise.williams@uq.edu.au