Research interests
Primary areas
- Galaxy evolution, formation, and environment over cosmologically significant timescales
- Stellar populations inside galaxies and their response to their physical environment
- Clusters and superclusters of galaxies, their kinematics, constituents, and growth
- Star formation in galaxies, and active galactic nuclei
- Brightest cluster galaxies (cD galaxies), and dwarf galaxies
- Filaments of galaxies that stretch between galaxy clusters, voids, large-scale structure, and topology
- Large, wide-field, and deep redshift surveys of the sky
Other areas
- Astronomical image processing, automated classification, machine learning
- Virtual observatory, and catalogue matching and handling
- Astrophysics and physics education
- Dark energy, and the standard model of cosmology
- Random number generation, statistics, statistical methods, game theory
Postgraduate supervision
Observational astronomy and astrophysics, with a particular focus on galaxies, galaxy evolution, galaxy formation, stellar populations of galaxies, AGN, galaxy clusters, and large-scale structure of the Universe.
Completed PhDs
- Charlotte Wilkinson (2015-2019)
- Yjan Gordon (2015-2018)
- Amelia Fraser-McKelvie (2013-2017)
- Jacob Crossett (2012-2017)
- Dane Kleiner (2012-2017)
- Nic Bonne (2011-2015)
- David Palamara (2010-2015)
- Tim Dolley (2010-2015)
- Richard Beare (2010-2014)
- Brendan Griffen (2008-2009)
- Russell Jurek (2005-2009)
- Peter Firth (2005-2008)
- Isaac Roseboom (2004-2007)
Current PhD supervisions
- Mikkel Kristensen
- Mikkel Lindholmer
- Lawrence Bilton
- Oliver Bartlett