I’m hiring! Postdoc research position
I’m looking for a new Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Galaxy Astrophysics! Applications are invited for a 2-to-3 year postdoc to work at Swinburne on probing the circumgalactic medium at...
View ArticlePhD Scholarships available!
Scholarships for studying a PhD are available at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS). CAS has just opened its next application round for PhD places, including Swinburne University...
View ArticleGalactic feeding frenzy
We’ve spotted a distant galaxy feeding on the gas in its surroundings, gathering in the fuel to form new stars. We know that galaxies quickly deplete their reservoirs of gas as they grow and create new...
View ArticleAtomic data review
We’ve reviewed, compiled and synthesized the laboratory atomic data needed for precise studies of the metallic absorption lines typically seen in quasar spectra. A decade ago, it was a remarkable fact...
View ArticleUniverse breaks its fever
We’ve taken the universe’s temperature! Its rising fever broke about 11 billion years ago. See the Swinburne Media Release about it here. In the early universe, most of the atoms were dispersed in...
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Galaxy silhouettes reveal few seeds for new stars
Molecules in space are rare, rarer than we thought! See the Swinburne University of Technology and University of Hawaii media releases. Images associated with this release are provided below. We’ve...
View Article‘A Night at the Keck’ public talk at Swinburne
Together with Dr. Jeff Cooke and Mark Durre, I gave a public lecture about why I use the Keck Telescopes in Hawaii and what it’s like to observe quasars with them. This special event on the 18th July...
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Three eyes tracking nature’s laws
We’ve used the 3 most powerful optical telescopes on Earth to test a fundamental law of nature 10 billion years ago! Swinburne University PhD student, Tyler Evans, led this new work to comprehensively...
View ArticleTesting physics with dead stars
Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of dead stars, we’ve tested fundamental physics in a gravity field 20,000 times stronger than here on Earth. Our paper is published today in Physical Review...
View ArticleThe edges of knowledge
I gave an invited talk about “The edges of knowledge” at the ‘The edges of astronomy’ conference at the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra as part of their Australian Frontiers of Science...
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