Our People

An international collaboration.

Teams

Management Team

  • Steven Tingay (Curtin University) – Director
  • Tom Booler (Curtin University) – Program Manager
  • Aoife Stapleton (Curtin University) – Project Support
  • Chris Riseley (University of Bologna) – Principal Scientist
  • Stefan Duchesne (CSIRO) – Deputy Principal Scientist

Board Members

  • Phil Edwards (CSIRO) – Chair
  • Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO/UWA)
  • Tasso Tzioumis (CSIRO)
  • Quan Guo (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – SHAO)
  • Jonathan Pober (Brown University)
  • Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)
  • Keitaro Takahashi (Kumamoto University)
  • Emma Tolley (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne- EPFL)
  • Andrew Williams (Curtin University)
  • Cathie Zheng (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – SHAO)

Time Allocation Committee (TAC)

  • Takuya Akahori (NAOJ/SKAO)
  • Maria Arias (Leiden University)
  • Joe Callingham (Leiden University/ASTRON) 
  • Dharam Lal (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics – NCRA-TIFR)
  • Roland Timmerman (Durham University)
  • Steven Tremblay (National Radio Astronomy Observatory – NRAO)

Science Working Group (SWG) Leads

  • Epoch of Reionisation: Cathryn Trott (Curtin University)
  • Galactic & Extragalactic Science: Christopher Riseley (University of Bologna)
  • Transients: Gemma Anderson (Curtin University)
  • Solar, Heliospheric & Ionospheric Science: Divya Oberoi (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research – NCRA/TIFR)
  • Pulsars and Fast Transients: Ramesh Bhat (Curtin University)

Operations Team

  • Venus Chico (Curtin University)
  • David Emrich (Curtin University)
  • Phillip Giersch (Curtin University)
  • Jake Jones (Curtin University)
  • Andrew McPhail (Curtin University)
  • Christopher Phillips (Curtin University)
  • Jamie Pierce (Curtin University)
  • Mouriyan Rajendran (Curtin)
  • Chitru Shrestha (Curtin)
  • Greg Sleap (Curtin University)
  • Andrew Williams (Curtin University)
  • Cary Wintle (Curtin University)

Australian Consortium

Australian National University (ANU)

  • Geoffrey Bicknell
  • Roland Crocker
  • Naomi McClure-Griffiths
  • Stuart Wyithe

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

  • Keith Bannister
  • Hayley Bignall
  • Douglas Bock
  • Mark Cheung
  • Rajan Chhetri
  • Barnali Das
  • Stefan Duchesne
  • Phil Edwards
  • Ron Ekers
  • Timothy Galvin
  • George Heald
  • George Hobbs
  • Minh Huynh
  • Simon Johnston
  • Dilpreet Kaur
  • Elizabeth Mahony
  • Dave McConnell
  • Daniel Mitchell
  • John Morgan
  • Ian Morrison
  • Ray Norris
  • Stephen Ord
  • Joshua Pritchard
  • Wasim Raja
  • Cormac Reynolds
  • John Reynolds
  • Charlotte Sobey
  • Ravi Subrahmanyan
  • Nick Swainston
  • Nithyanandan Thyagarajan
  • Ivy Wong
  • Andrew Zic

Curtin University – Australia Consortium Lead

  • Gemma Anderson
  • Gayatri Aniruddha
  • Ramesh Bhat
  • Jess Broderick (SKAO)
  • Benjamin Burridge
  • Jaiden Cook
  • David Davidson
  • Cristian di Pietrantonio
  • Garvit Grover
  • Paul Hancock
  • Brendan Hennessy
  • Torrance Hodgson
  • Natasha Hurley-Walker
  • Clancy James
  • Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
  • Jake Jones
  • Maria Kovaleva
  • Mike Kriele
  • Pratik Kumar
  • Christopher Lee
  • Tara Lind
  • Christene Lynch
  • Silvia Mantovanini
  • Sammy McSweeney
  • Bradley Meyers
  • James Miller-Jones
  • Dev Null 
  • Ridhima Nunhokee 
  • Tyrone O’Doherty
  • Sean Paterson
  • Flora Petrou
  • Steve Prabu
  • Danny Price (SKAO)
  • Benjamin Quici
  • Kathryn Ross
  • Danica Scott
  • Susmita Sett
  • Aishwarya Selvaraj
  • Nick Seymour
  • Keegan Smith
  • Lisa Smith
  • Marcin Sokolowski
  • Adrian Sutinjo
  • Chia Min Tan
  • Jishnu Nambissan Thekkeppattu
  • Jun Tian
  • Steven Tingay
  • Cathryn Trott
  • Brandon Venville
  • Angie Waszewski
  • Randall Wayth (SKAO)
  • Amanda Wilber
  • Alexander Williamson

Swinburne University of Technology

  • Ryan Shannon

University of Melbourne

  • Aman Chokshi
  • Brad Greig
  • Bart Pindor
  • Mahsa Rahimi
  • Rachel Webster

University of Sydney

  • Iver Cairns
  • Manisha Caleb
  • Dougal Dobie
  • Laura Driessen
  • Anne Green
  • Tara Murphy
  • Elaine Sadler

University of Western Australia (UWA)

  • Richard Dodson
  • Marcus Dolensky
  • Bi-Qing For
  • David Pallot
  • Peter Quinn
  • Maria Rioja (joint appointment with CSIRO)
  • Lister Staveley-Smith
  • Tessa Vernstrom
  • Andreas Wicenec

Western Sydney University (WSU)

  • Rami Al-Saberi
  • Evan Crawford
  • Ain De Horta
  • Miroslav Filipovic
  • Kieran Luken
  • Peter Macgregor
  • Zachary Smeaton
  • Nicholas Tothill
  • Velibor Velovic

Chinese Consortium

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) – China Consortium Lead

  • Tao An
  • Qiuyang Fu (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Junhua Gu (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Minfeng Gu
  • Fulai Guo
  • Shaoguang Guo
  • Quan Guo
  • Xiaoyu Hong
  • Yan Huang (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Chunyan Jiang
  • Baoqiang Lao
  • Nan Li (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Ran Li (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Bin Liu
  • Cheng Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University – SJTU)
  • Tianyang Liu
  • Yang Lu
  • Qingyuan Ma (Sun Yat-Sen University)
  • Huanyuan Shan
  • Hayato Shimabukuro (Yunnan University)
  • Hoongwah Siew (Shanghai Jiao Tong University – SJTU)
  • Xiaohui Sun (Yunnan University)
  • Wenwu Tian (Yunnan University)
  • Fengxian Tong
  • Ailing Wang
  • Feng Wang (Guangzhou University)
  • Jingying Wang
  • Yujie Wang
  • Linhui Wu
  • Xiang-ping Wu (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Yajun Wu
  • Fu-Guo Xie
  • Haiguang Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University – SJTU)
  • Zhijun Xu
  • Mengyao Xue (National Astronomical Observatory of China – NAOC)
  • Zhen Yan
  • Xiaolong Yang
  • Yanbing Yang
  • Ting Yu
  • Yun Yu
  • Jiajun Zhang
  • Le Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University)
  • Yingkang Zhang
  • Zhongli Zhang
  • Feiyu Zhao
  • Wei Zhao
  • Xueying Zhang
  • Cathie Zheng
  • Zhenya Zheng
  • Zhenghao Zhu 

Japanese Consortium

Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University

  • Atsushi Nishizawa

Kagoshima University

  • Hiroshi Imai
  • Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Kumamoto University – Japan Consortium Lead

  • Sawera Gull
  • Wildan Hidayat
  • Takumi Ito
  • Teppei Morimoto
  • Daichi Nagakura
  • Shiori Oguro
  • Keitaro Takahashi

Nagoya University

  • Kiyotomo Ichiki
  • Naoshi Sugiyama
  • Takeuchi Tsutomu
  • Shuichiro Yokoyama

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)

  • Takuya Akahori
  • Mareki Honma
  • Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Yusuke Kono
  • Mami Machida
  • Shintaro Yoshiura

National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Suzuka College

  • Kenji Hasegawa

The University of Tokyo

  • Yoshiaki Ono
  • Masami Ouchi

Tsukuba University

  • Hidenobu Yajima

Canadian Consortium

University of Alberta – Canada Consortium Lead

  • Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (Université de Montréal)
  • Martin Houde (Western University)
  • Roland Kothes (National Research Council – NRC Canada)
  • Samar Safi-Harb (University of Manitoba)
  • Matt Shultz (Queen’s University)
  • Gregory Sivakoff
  • Kristine Spekkens (Queen’s University)
  • Jeroen Stil (University of Calgary)
  • Ludo Van Waerbeke (University of British Columbia – UBC)
  • Jasper Wall (University of British Columbia – UBC)
  • Tony Willis (National Research Council – NRC Canada)

University of Toronto 

  • Maria Drout
  • Bryan Gaensler
  • Ue-Li Pen
  • Luke Pratley
  • Keith Vanderlinde
  • Jennifer West

 

US Consortium

Brown University – US Consortium Lead

  • Stephen Bach
  • Mitchell Burdorf
  • Jade Ducharme
  • Theodora Kunicki
  • Aidan LaBella
  • Morgan Lee
  • Xiaorui Lu
  • Jonathan Pober
  • Ruijie Shi
  • Willow Smith
  • Jasper Solt
  • Adam Beardsley (Washington State University – WSU)
  • Chenoa Tremblay (UC Berkeley SETI Research Center/Breakthrough Listen)
  • Steven Tremblay (National Radio Astronomy Observatory – NRAO)

Arizona State University (ASU)

  • Judd Bowman 
  • Katherine Elder 
  • Danny Jacobs 
  • Matthew Kolopanis 

University of Washington

  • Bryna Hazelton
  • Eli Lilleskov
  • Nicel Mohamed-Hinds
  • Miguel Morales
  • Pyxie Star
  • Ian Sullivan

Swiss Consortium

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland Consortium Lead

  • Shreyam Krishna
  • Jean-Paul Kneib
  • Etienne Orliac
  • Piyush Panchal
  • Volodymyr Savchenko
  • Emma Tolley

Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)

  • Michele Bianco
  • Alexandre Refregier

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)

  • Mark Sargent

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

  • Victor Holanda

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)

  • André Csillaghy

University of Basel (UniBas)

  • Ruben Cabezon
  • Florina Ciorba

University of Geneva (UniGe)

  • Daniel Schaerer

University of Zurich (UZH)

  • Lucio Mayer
  • Aurel Schneider

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

  • Philipp Denzel
  • Elena Gavagnin

Associate Members

  • Nichole Barry (University of New South Wales – UNSW)
  • Joe Callingham (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy – ASTRON)
  • Dan Hu (Masaryk University – MUNI)
  • Aquib Moin (United Arab Emirates University – UAEU)
  • Divya Oberoi (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research – NCRA/TIFR)
  • Mohini Pachchigar (Victoria University of Wellington – VUW)
  • Yvette Perrott (Victoria University of Wellington – VUW)
  • Christopher Riseley (University of Bologna)
  • Rohit Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India- IITKI)
  • Mark Waterson (SKAO)
  • Sarah White (Rhodes University)
  • Michael Wilensky (University of Manchester)
  • Xiang Zhang (Observatoire de Paris)