Fields of Research

Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
Seismology and seismic exploration
Theoretical and applied mechanics
Astronomical sciences
Structural geology and tectonics
Geothermics and radiometrics
Geoscience data visualisation
Numerical solution of differential and integral equations
Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)
Geodynamics

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences
Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences
Inclusive education
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Geological hazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity)
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)

Career Best Publications

Duty-cycle and energetics of remnant radio-loud AGN; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Energetics and lifetimes of local radio active galactic nuclei; The Astrophysical Journal
RAiSE II: resolved spectral evolution in radio AGN; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Research Publications

2022 College of Science and Engineering Early Career Researcher Award
248 - Subglacial character of the Aurora Basin, East Antarctica, from novel seismic waveform modelling; American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
462 - Well-posed use of colour in visualisations for data inference in Antarctic sciences; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference 2020: Antarctic - Global Connections
HST WFC3/Grism observations of the candidate ultra-high-redshift radio galaxy GLEAM J0917–0012; Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
A comparison of explicit Runge-Kutta methods; The ANZIAM Journal
An extended Boussinesq theory for interfacial fluid mechanics; Journal of Engineering Mathematics
An ObsPy library for event detection and seismic attribute calculation: preparing waveforms for automated analysis; Journal of Open Research Software
BL LAC OBJECT PKS B1144−379: An extreme scintillator; The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Computing interfacial flows of viscous fluids; Journal of Computational Physics
Constraining the radio properties of the z = 6.44 QSO VIK J2318-3113; Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmology with powerful radio-loud AGNs; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coupling of hydrodynamic and seismic wave simulations for detection of hydrological events within glaciers; AGU Fall Meeting 2022
Data-driven tectonic regionalization of Antarctica: appreciate the similarity; Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021 - 'Core to Cosmos'
Delayed triggering of radio active galactic nuclei in gas-rich minor mergers in the local Universe; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duty-cycle and energetics of remnant radio-loud AGN; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Energetics and lifetimes of local radio active galactic nuclei; The Astrophysical Journal
Eureka Prize Finalist, Australian Museum, 2022
Impacts of the cryosphere and atmosphere on observed microseisms generated in the Southern Ocean; Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Multivariate geothermal heat flow models of Antarctica, towards Aq2; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020
PKS 2250-351: A giant radio galaxy in Abell 3936; Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
PRAiSE: Resolved spectral evolution in simulated radio sources; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Properties and biases of the global heat flow compilation; Frontiers in Earth Science
Queers in Science Eureka Prize interview with Andy Gall
Radio Galaxy Zoo: observational evidence for environment as the cause of radio source asymmetry; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
RAiSE II: resolved spectral evolution in radio AGN; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
RAiSE III: 3C radio AGN energetics and composition; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
RAiSE X: searching for radio galaxies in X-ray surveys; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
RAiSE: simulation-based analytical model of AGN jets and lobes; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
RAiSERed: radio continuum redshifts for lobed active galactic nuclei; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Remnant radio galaxies discovered in a multi-frequency survey; Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Seismic signals generated at a water-ice interface from smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations; 2021 AGU Fall Meeting
Selecting and modelling remnant AGNs with limited spectral coverage; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Separation of tectonic and local components of horizontal GPS station velocities: a case study for glacial isostatic adjustment in East Antarctica; Geophysical Journal International
The Bok Prize, Astronomical Society of Australia, 2014 - Evolution of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei
The duty cycle of radio galaxies revealed by LOFAR: remnant and restarted radio source populations in the Lockman Hole; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The GLEAMing of the first supermassive black holes: II. A new sample of high-redshift radio galaxy candidates; Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Unsupervised learning applied to cryoseismic signals: identification of glacier processes from the Whillans Ice Stream; Abstracts form the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting
Vice Chancellor's Award 2022, Early Career Researcher Award

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision