Astrophysics people
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)