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Our research covers a broad spectrum of astronomy & astrophysics topics. Find potential topics for your research degree.
| Projects | Research themes | Supervisor | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| A high-altitude survey for nearby supernova | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| A resolved star formation study of galaxies using TYPHOON | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| A Spatially-Resolved study of Metal and Dust Abundances in Nearby Galaxies | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Adaptive optics for free-space optical communications | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Adaptive optics for pushing space debris | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Adaptive optics for Quantum Communications | Instrumentation | PhD | |
| Are magnetic fields the scaffolds of galaxies? | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Asteroids studies with the Kepler Space Telescope for Future Asteroid Mining | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Astrogenetic: Unravelling the History of the Milky Way with Phylogenetic Methods | Galactic archaeology | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Blue-stragglers in open clusters: when and how stellar mergers occur? | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Characterising target selection effects in stellar surveys | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor and Summer scholar course | |
| Characterising the Evolution of Dust Attenuation in Galaxies with Galaxy Environment | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Characterising the Spatial Variation of Dust Attenuation in Galaxies | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Connecting the Galactic and Extragalactic with MUSE: a comparison of integrated and resolved stellar populations | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Connections between morphology and kinematics at cosmic noon | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Design of the Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system for the 8-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Dust in the Milky Way Galaxy | Galactic archaeology | Honours and Masters | |
| Finding Young Stellar Associations with Chronostar | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Gas motions and excitation in edge-on barred galaxies | Galactic archaeology | Honours | |
| Ground-to-satellite optical communication system corrected by Adaptive Optics: impact of scintillation | Instrumentation | PhD | |
| Harnessing the Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Stars through Domain Adaptation | Galactic archaeology | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| High-speed imaging in the near-infrared | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Masters and PhD | |
| Improving Telescope Operations via Explainable AI and Reinforcement Learning | Instrumentation | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Infrared surveys with the Siding Spring Transient Factory | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Honours and PhD | |
| Instrumentation for measuring dome turbulence | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
| Interspacecraft Metrology for Formation Flying Nanosats | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Ionizing Radiation in Local Galaxies: Expectations versus Reality | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for ground-to-space optical communications | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Laser Guide Star for tracking space debris | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Looking for patterns in the most recent exoplanet data | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | ||
| Magnetism in the Magellanic System | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | ||
| Mapping azimuthal variations in metals across cosmic time | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | PhD | |
| Mapping Dark Matter in the Milky Way via Physics-Inspired Neural Networks | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Measuring Dark Energy with Supernova and Active Galactic Nuclei | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Metal SLUG - Developing a tool for stochastic nucleosynthesis | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor and Masters | |
| Mid-Infrared Nulling Interferometry for Exoplanet Detection | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Monitoring the mesospheric sodium layer for Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Multiple Stellar Populations from a Single Galaxy Spectrum | Galactic archaeology | Honours | |
| Observing black-hole formation in gravitational-wave events | Black hole phenomena | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Observing HII region spectra in isolated dwarf irregular galaxies from the SIGRID sample | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Masters and PhD | |
| OzDES SkyMapper observations for Reverberation Mapping | Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Probing the lagging halo of the Milky Way | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Masters | |
| Projects related to Feedback by Jets and Winds in Active Galaxies | Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Masters and PhD | |
| Radio spectra of galaxies undergoing feedback by relativistic jets | Black hole phenomena, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
| Red spirals - how star formation fades in galaxies | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Masters and PhD | |
| Semiconductor Guidestar Laser for Adaptive Optics Applications in Astronomy, Space Situational Awareness and Laser Communications | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Signatures of planet ingestion among binary stars | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Simulated Observations of the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
| Simulating the impact of dust on distance estimates to type Ia supernovae | Summer scholar course | ||
| SkyMapper Transient Survey | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| Taking the Temperature of a galaxy | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| The Age Distribution of Earth-like planets in the Universe | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | ||
| The Galactic Centre Gamma-Ray Excess: Signature of Dark Matter or Ancient Stars? | Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| The Galactic helium-to-metal enrichment ratio | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| The Initial Mass Function in the most extreme star-forming environments | Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | PhD | |
| The Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey - Supernovae, Black Holes, and Cosmology | Stellar and planetary astronomy, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| The Kepler/K2 field: bridging stellar and Galactic astronomy | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| The Oldest Stars in the Universe | Stellar and planetary astronomy | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| The origin of filamentary structures in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| The origin of metal rich globular clusters | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours and Masters | |
| The Origin of the High Galactic Latitudes Asymmetry in the Milky Way Magnetic Field Structure | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
| The Pyxis Space Interferometer Prototype | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
| The Stromlo Milky Way Satellite Survey: Satellite galaxies as probe of structure formation in our cosmic backyard | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Thick disks in other spiral galaxies | Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Masters and PhD | |
| Understanding the abundance spread in star clusters | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Masters and PhD | |
| Understanding the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre’s giant outflow | Galactic archaeology | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Understanding the Milky Way’s giant radio lobes | Black hole phenomena, Galactic archaeology, Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD | |
| Uniting optical and infrared spectroscopy with GALAH and APOGEE | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| Using LEGO and 3D printing for optical instruments | Instrumentation | Honours and Summer scholar course | |
| Using SN free host spectra to improve spectral classification | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| What new information can we extract from stellar spectra? | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
| What type of planets might we measure with the Giant Magellan Telescope? | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Honours and Masters |
