I co-starred in an amazing VR documentary produced by White Sparks: Beyond the Milky Way. Filming at night in the Murchison was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

Every year we run Astrofest, Australia’s largest public astronomy festival, and it’s completely free! Hundreds of professional and amateur astronomers volunteer their time to explain what we do. Here I’m showing a family the MWA and talking about how it helps us explore space.

I visit a few schools a year to give talks about radio astronomy and careers in science; this photo is from a talk I gave at Kingsway College in 2021.

The five of us who participated in the ABC’s media residency programme for scientists in 2018: Dr Nasim Amiralian, Dr Caitlin Curtis, myself, Dr Belinda Liddell, and Dr Catherine Granger.

The five of us who participated in the ABC’s media residency programme for scientists in 2018: Dr Belinda Liddell, myself, Dr Caitlin Curtis, Dr Nasim Amiralian, and Dr Catherine Granger. We were thrilled to meet the scicomm master himself, Dr Karl!

I’m next to one of the tiles of the Murchison Widefield Array; behind me is the iconic “breakaway”, a beautiful rock formation in this stunning landscape.

I took this beautiful photo of one of the tiles MWA near sunset in 2013, during commissioning of the telescope.

During my PhD I worked on a radio telescope called “AMI” — this is one of eight huge dishes that form the AMI Large Array, with which we made precision measurements of radio galaxies millions of light years away.

The tiles of the MWA really are quite small compared to traditional dish-based telescopes! But with hundreds of tiles combined, we build up an amazing view of the sky.

During my PhD I worked on a radio telescope called “AMI”, and even then I was already keen to reach out and show our work to non-astronomers. Here I am taking several of my college friends around the instrument and explaining how it works.

Left to right: Prof Carole Jackson, Dr Guillaume Drouart, Dr Tom Franzen, Dr Paul Hancock, myself, Dr John Morgan, Dr Sarah White, Dr Nick Seymour, and Dr Anna Kapinska.

This is one of the original MWA receivers, that takes analogue signals from the tiles and transforms them into digital signals that run along fibre optic cables back to the correlator. I’m swapping a few cables for some tests during 2013 commissioning.

I’m at the Curtin Hub for Interactive Visualisation and EResearch (the HIVE) using their high-definition display to view the GLEAM survey.

Networking with, helping and being helped, and garnering inspiration from these wonderful women and their work has been an incredible experience. https://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/list/2019-superstars/

I visited the GMRT in India in 2019 as part of a conference trip. Seeing these huge dishes is so inspiring!