Academic

Adjunct and honorary

Administration

Anthony Arnold

Research interests: tree and direct N-body simulations, black holes and gravitational radiation.
Email: anthony.arnold@uqconnect.edu.au

Arshia Anjum

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

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 

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

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

Hugh McDougall

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

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 

Katelyn Smith - Honours (supervisor Ben Pope)
Isabella (Bella) Pham - Honours (supervisor Ben Roberts)
Jeremy Brady - Honours (supervisor Holger Baumgardt)
Luke Rosier - Honours (supervisor Holger Baumgardt)
Joshua Hunold - Honours (supervisor Holger Baumgardt)
Mackenzie Clark - Honours (supervisor Tamara Davis)

Staff

Ben Pope

Rossana Ruggeri

Rebecca McElroy

Tiarna Stehr

Pat Scott

Josh Calcino

Samuel Hinton

Jacobo Asorey

Jason Dossett

Janie Hoormann

Edward Macaulay

Smriti Mahajan

Signe Riemer-Sorensen

 

Students

2024

Elizabeth O'Brien (Honours)

Lachlan Hobart (Honours)

Dylan Ramke (Honours)

Ryan White (Honours)

Liana Rauf (PhD)

Ellie Leitinger (PhD)

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

Chenyu He (MSc)

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)