SCIENCE

Research interests and highlights

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Higher Degree by Research Students:

Current:

Jordan Moncrieff (PhD Candidate, UWA) Binary black holes in the disks of active galactic nuclei

Mac Button (Masters by research, UWA) How good are post-merger neutron star waveforms in practice?

Past:

2021-2024 — Hayden Crisp (PhD, co-supervised with Dr Bruce Gendre & Assoc. Prof David Coward) On the origin and observation of flares in the late afterglow of gamma-ray bursts

2022-2023 — Eloise Moore (MSc, co-supervised with Dr Bruce Gendre) Gamma-ray bursts as the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

2020 - 2021 — Alexandra Moroianu (MSc, Co-supervised with Prof. Linqing Wen) A coincidence search for gravitational waves and fast radio bursts

2020 - 2021 — Ben Burridge (MSc, Co-supervised with Prof. Linqing Wen) Localizing and detecting gravitational waves

For students and prospective students

I am currently not taking on new masters or PhD students.

Teaching

I currently teach a few modules within the Department of Physics. I mainly teach about the General Theory of Relativity and high energy astrophysics.

Semester Two 2025

PHYS4420: High energy astrophysics and gravitational waves

PHYS2004: Quantum and relativity