Astrophysics people
Anthony Arnold
Research interests: tree and direct N-body simulations, black holes and gravitational radiation.
Email: anthony.arnold@uqconnect.edu.au
David Blyth
Research interests: modelling the dynamics of galaxies with massive black holes.
Email: d.blyth@uq.edu.au
Zac Byrne
Research interests: extragalactic astrophysics, focussing on element abundances and their effect on the formation and life of galaxies. Also galaxy simulations and black holes.
Email: zacbyrne@gmail.com
Joshua Calcino
Research interests: supernova cosmology with the OzDES galaxy survey.
Email: josh.calcino@gmail.com
Simon Deeley
Research interests: galaxy evolution and its dependence on the surrounding environment, currently focusing on how spiral galaxies transform into lenticular galaxies.
Email: simon.deeley@uqconnect.edu.au
Samuel Hinton
Research interests: testing cosmological models using large-scale structure and supernova data; creating detailed visualisations, intuitive scientific software, and automatic data pipelines.
Email: samuelreay@gmail.com
Rebecca Jane Mayes
Research interests: using cosmological simulations to study galaxy disruption in large galaxy clusters, with the goal of predicting the number of supermassive black holes that are located within ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
Email: r.mayes@uq.net.au
Gary Segal
Research interests: information-theoretic perspectives on the second law of thermodynamics.The application of machine learning in big data radio astronomy, in particular, measures of 'interestingness' and unsupervised learning approaches for detecting the unexpected.
Email: g.segal@uq.edu.au
Staff
Jacobo Asorey
Jason Dossett
Edward Macaulay
Smriti Mahajan
David Parkinson
Signe Riemer-Sorensen
Students
2017
Pouria Khalaj (PhD)
Merryn Taylor (Honours)
Henning Schmitz (Honours)
Harry Hobson (Honours)
2016
Daniel Muthukrishna (Honours)
Troy Cobb (Honours)
Zac Byrne (Honours)
Joshua Calcino (Honours)
Natalia Eiré Sommer (Honours)
2015
Anthea King (PhD)
Joel Pfeffer (PhD)
Jacob Seiler (Honours)
Sarah Thomson (Honours)
2014
Caitlin Adams (Honours)
Mathew Bonanno (Honours)
Sarah Hegarty (Honours)
Adam Thomas (Honours)
Ewan McAndrew (Honours)
Kyle Muzycka (Honours)
Conor O'Neill (Honours)
Mikkel Stockmann (Honours)
Sarah Sweet (PhD)
Carolyn Wood (Honours)
2012
Brendan Griffen (PhD)
Samuel Peet (Honours)