Astrophysics PhD students

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 

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 (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