Students
My research revolves around how nearby galaxies start and stop forming stars and how the growth of their central supermassive black holes affect the evolution of the host galaxy. In particular, I use very large all-sky surveys of radio emission and atomic Hydrogen to understand the physical mechanisms that drive star formation and galaxy evolution. I am available as a CSIRO co-supervisor of graduate student projects. I have graduate level (Masters & PhD) student projects in the following In areas:
The ASKAP WALLABY survey & the use of the latest high-resolution maps+kinematics of atomic Hydrogen to reveal the drivers of star formation and galaxy evolution
Nature versus nurture in star formation history and galaxy evolution
How do the growth of central supermassive black holes affect the ISM and star formation of a galaxy?
How do radio galaxies form and evolve? What are the origins of the two modes of central black hole growth?
Citizens science/ data science /Machine learning projects related to the Radio Galaxy Zoo citizen science project.
Machine/Deep learning applications to help solve the massive data challenges faced by the next-generation telescopes and surveys.
More information about the benefits of CSIRO co-supervision can be found here.
I also have close ties with ICRAR/UWA and the student coordinators (Matthew Young/ Claudia Lagos) have a list of the student projects . But if you do not find them appealing and would like to work on a project that is related to my other areas of research listed above, I urge all potential enthusiastic students to contact me and we can design a research project together that ignites the student's interest.
More information on pursuing postgraduate studies in astrophysics at ICRAR/UWA can be found on the official ICRAR website. Alternatively, here is a link to the latest ICRAR/UWA PhD booklet describing each PhD supervisor's research interest.
Research students for whom I am/was their primary supervisor
PhD (Curtin+CSIRO): Joe Grundy (2021 - now) on "Radio continuum properties of star-forming galaxies"
PhD (UWA+CSIRO): Manasvee Saraf (2021 - now) on "Galaxy evolution in the Norma Cluster"
MPhys (UWA): Ryan Bagge (2020 - 2021) on "Can spheroids regrow arms?" --> completing a PhD @UNSW
MPhys (UWA): Emmett Lyon (2020 - 2021) on "The HI properties of radio-excess galaxies"
Honours (UWA): Vinay Kerai (2021) on "Discoveries from the Radio Galaxy Zoo forum using Machine Learning/ Natural Language Processing methods"
PhD (UWA) : Ahmed Elagali (2016-2020) on "Galaxy collisions and interactions" --> now Principal Reserach Scientist at UWA
Masters of Physics (UWA) : Alex Williamson (2015-2016) on "Search for large HI streams from HIPASS" --> completed a PhD @Curtin, now a postdoc @ICRAR/UWA
Summer research studentship (ICRAR/UWA): Andrew Jamieson (2014-2015) on "The effect of photodissociation on the observed HI content of nearby galaxies"
Undergraduate spare-pair of hands research experience (UWA): Morgan Goodman (2014)
Undergraduate research students (Macquarie Univ/CSIRO): Bronte Hoban & Michelle Whitford (2013) on "ATCA archival search for HI stream candidates"
Co-supervisor/thesis committee/mentoring/collaboration with research students:
Jeein Kim (Yonsei University), Macon Magno (Texas A&M), Tamsyn O'Beirne (Swinburne/UWA), Georgia Stewart (UTas), Jie Li* (UWA), Omima Osman* (UWA), Chandra Murugeshan* (Swinburne), Matthew Alger* (ANU), Nina Glaser* (ETH-Zurich), Junhyun Baek* (Yonsei), Xuanyi Lyu* (UWA), Ruby Wright* (ICRAR/UWA), Yuri Uno* (Kagoshima), Shuntaro Yoshida* (Nagoya), Lyla Seoyoung Jung*, (Yonsei), Kate Harborne* (ICRAR/UWA), Rhys Poulton* (ICRAR/UWA), Soheil Koushan* (ICRAR/UWA), Fiona Audcent-Ross* (ICRAR/UWA), Anna Weigel* (ETH-Zurich), Hyein Yoon* (Yonsei), Bumhyun Lee* (Yonsei), Katarina Lutz* (Swinburne), Helga Denes* (Swinburne) & Kathrin Wolfinger* (Swinburne)
*completed
