Status: Open
Applications open: 09/04/2018
Applications close: 11/05/2018

Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy PhD Scholarship on probing cosmic explosions with Australian radio telescopes

This PhD scholarship is provided by Curtin University to support an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher. In this project, you will use data from the world’s leading radio telescopes (including, but not limited to the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Murchison Widefield Array) to investigate the early-time radio properties of radio transients, such as short-duration gamma-ray bursts, which are a subset of gravitational wave events, and flare stars. Curtin University’s Institute of Radio Astronomy forms one half of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia. Curtin University operates the Murchison Widefield Array, the precursor to the low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and supports a large research group spanning transient astronomy, accretion physics, radio astronomy (galactic, extragalactic), pulsars, studies of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), and radio astronomy engineering research including significant participation in developing systems for the SKA.