Potential projects
Our research covers a broad spectrum of astronomy & astrophysics topics. Find potential topics for your research degree.
Projects | Research themes | Supervisor | Degree |
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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 new search for strong gravitational lenses in the MAGPI survey | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Masters | |
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 | |
Building an Observatory in Virtual Reality | Instrumentation | Honours and PhD | |
Building an observatory in virtual reality | Instrumentation | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
Characterising target selection effects in stellar surveys | Galactic archaeology, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor 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 | |
Cosmic evolution of metallicity gradients across environments with MAGPI | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | PhD | |
Creating a UV-Optical spectral database for next generation facilities | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
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 | |
Exploring the Nature of the Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies over Cosmic Time | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
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-altitude balloon experiment platform | Instrumentation | Honours and Summer scholar course | |
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 | |
Instrumentation for Measuring Dome Turbulence | Instrumentation | Masters 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 | |
K3-LARS: exploring the kinematics, metallicity, and ionisation state of early galaxies | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | PhD | |
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 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 | |
Metallicity gradients in the resolved redshift desert | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters and Summer scholar course | |
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 | |
More accurate galaxy stellar masses through forward photometric modelling | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Masters and PhD | |
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 | |
Pocket GMT: a testbed for the Giant Magellan Telescope | Instrumentation | Honours and Summer scholar course | |
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 | |
Quintuple Galaxy Merger | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours and Summer scholar course | |
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 | |
Shocking collisions in Stephan's Quintet | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | 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 Pyxis Space Interferometer Prototype | Instrumentation, Stellar and planetary astronomy | Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
The star formation -- AGN connection | Structure and evolution of the Cosmos | Bachelor, Honours, Masters 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 | |
Three-dimensional image reconstruction of satellites | Instrumentation | Honours, PhD and Summer scholar course | |
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 |