Matthew Bailes

Professor Matthew Bailes FAA is an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts.[1][2] He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery. He is now leading his team to re-engineer the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Fast Radio (Lorimer) Bursts.

Matthew Bailes
Known forPulsars
AwardsAustralian Laureate Fellowship (2015)[1]
Shaw Prize (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, pulsars, radio astronomy instrumentations
InstitutionsSwinburne University of Technology
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Bailes founded the organisation for development of the Virtual Room, an octagonal virtual reality system for displaying the planets, the Sun, the stars, the Milky Way, the galaxies and the universe, etc. He made the 3D film Realising Einstein's Universe.

Bailes is a committee member of the Australia Telescope Steering Committee[3] and on advisory board of Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022.[4] In 2023 he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy.[5][6]

References
  1. "Star professor awarded fellowship". Swinburne University of Technology. 25 June 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. "Professor Matthew Bailes - Staff Profile". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  3. "ATNF Steering Committee". ATNF. CSIRO. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. "Academy announces 2022 Fellows for outstanding contributions to science". Australian Academy of Science. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  5. Shaw Prize 2023
  6. Australian astronomer wins prestigious science award, ABC Radio National interview ("Breakfast"), ABC News Online, 2023-05-31
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