Established projects
The following list lists current and completed projects. A list of potential research projects is available on the potential projects page.
Projects | Degree | Theme | Status |
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Asteroids studies with the Kepler Space Telescope for Future Asteroid Mining | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Potential , Current |
Design of the Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system for the 8-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Ground-to-satellite optical communication system corrected by Adaptive Optics: impact of scintillation | PhD | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Infrared surveys with the Siding Spring Transient Factory | Honours and PhD | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Potential , Current |
Laser Guide Star for tracking space debris | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Measuring Dark Energy with Supernova and Active Galactic Nuclei | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Potential , Current |
Monitoring the mesospheric sodium layer for Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Semiconductor Guidestar Laser for Adaptive Optics Applications in Astronomy, Space Situational Awareness and Laser Communications | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
A new search for strong gravitational lenses in the MAGPI survey | Bachelor, Honours and Masters | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
Asteroids studies with the Kepler Space Telescope for Future Asteroid Mining | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Potential , Current |
Black holes in the early Universe | Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
Computational Astrophysics Laboratory | Non-award | Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
Control and Data Reduction for GHOST | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Current |
Design of the Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system for the 8-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Freezing-out atmospheric blurring with Lucky Imaging | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Current |
Fyris | Non-award | Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
Gas-rich dwarf galaxies: evolution and chemistry in the local universe | PhD | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
GMTIFS: 3DHD instrumentation for Astronomy | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Current |
Ground-to-satellite optical communication system corrected by Adaptive Optics: impact of scintillation | PhD | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Infrared surveys with the Siding Spring Transient Factory | Honours and PhD | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Potential , Current |
Laser Guide Star for tracking space debris | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Measuring Dark Energy with Supernova and Active Galactic Nuclei | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Potential , Current |
Monitoring the mesospheric sodium layer for Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
Revisiting stellar masses in the JWST era | Bachelor, Honours and Masters | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Current |
Semiconductor Guidestar Laser for Adaptive Optics Applications in Astronomy, Space Situational Awareness and Laser Communications | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Potential , Current |
What can life on Earth tell us about life in the universe? | PhD | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Current |
Accretion and outflow in young stellar objects | PhD | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Completed |
Adaptive Optics Demonstrator for space debris tracking | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Completed in 2021 |
Adaptive Optics for Satellite Imaging | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Completed in 2019 |
Adaptive Optics for Space Debris Tracking and Pushing | Engineering project | Instrumentation | Completed in 2021 |
Component Testing of Adaptive Optics Tracking and Pushing System | Bachelor, Honours, PhD and Summer scholar course | Instrumentation | Completed in 2019 |
Modeling the inner radio structure of the galaxy Centaurus A | Honours | Black hole phenomena | Completed |
Nucleosynthesis and ejection process: assisting in chemical tagging for the HERMES project | Honours | Galactic archaeology | Completed |
Oscillations in red giants | PhD | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Completed |
Quantifying the potential biosphere of Mars | PhD | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Completed |