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RESIDENT ASTRONOMERS PROFILE

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Professor Steven Tingay



Professor Steven Tingay is the M.R.O Radio Astronomy Section Advisor and is assisting in the establishment of several Radio Telescope Facilities at the M.R.O Site.

He is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project Leader formally from Swinburne University of Technology, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Tingay's SKA team undertake research into prototype technologies for VLBI and the SKA (the next generation large radio telescope), mainly concentrating on digital signal processing of radio astronomy data using supercomputing facilities.

Professor Tingay is an Honours graduate in physics from The University of Melbourne and holds a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from The Australian National University (Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories). Previous to working at Swinburne, Dr Tingay was a Bolton Fellow at the Australia Telescope National Facility, based at the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and was a NRC (USA) Resident Research Associate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he worked heaviliy for the Japanese VLBI Space Observatory Programme.

Steven's scientific interests are in radio and multi-wavelength astronomy, in particular with regard to active galactic nuclei and radio galaxies, relativistic jets and their interactions with their host galaxies, populations of supernova remnants in nearby starburst galaxies, galactic X-ray binary systems, and advanced algorithms for image formation.

Professor Tingay chairs the International SKA Simulations Working Group and the Australia Telescope Users Committee, and is a member of several other national and international advisory bodies and committees.

Professor Tingay was recently recruited to Curtin's School of Science and Computing, as Professor of Radio Astronomy in the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics in mid 2007.

His ongoing work at Curtin will be aided by access to a new level of high-performance computing being installed at the IVEC supercomputer facility at Perth's Technology Park.

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