Swinburne University of Technology Node Administrator
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Hitarthi Pandya searching for Dark Matter in association with charm-tagged jets for the ATLAS experiment
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Kyle Leaver’s current area of research is dark matter direct detection with the SABRE experiment. Including simulations and event reconstruction of muons in the SABRE veto vessel, sensitivity and discovery potential of dark matter direct detection experiments.
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Kenn Goh’s areas of research are physics beyond the standard model using Minimal 4D Composite Higgs Models.
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Dr Albert Kong is interested in performance-oriented software development and optimisation.
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Maximilian Amerl’s areas of research are associated with triggering and jet reconstruction in searches for dark matter with the ATLAS Experiment.
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Sam Thompson is a Master's student working under the supervision of Professor Cedric Simenel. Sam's area of research is the interaction of dark matter with nuclei and neutron stars.
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Ferdos Dastgiri is a PhD student working on dark matter Direct Detection and Metrology in SABRE and CYGNUS.
Read MoreDr Jeremy Bourhill has rejoined the team at the Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter (QDM) Laboratory, UWA, as a Research Asosciate after working for IMT Atlandique in Brest, France.
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Dr William Melbourne is working on the development of SABRE, a direct detection experiment. His PhD focussed on the characterisation of the light sensitive detectors used to study interactions in the detector as well as event simulation and reconstruction.
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Dr Madeleine Zurowski works in the area of experimental particle physics. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne which focused on assessing the response of the SABRE detector to backgrounds and different dark matter models. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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Yiyi Zhong’s area of research is SABRE experimental backgrounds: simulations and measurements of the cosmogenic radiobackgrounds in NaI(Tl), measurements of the intrinsic backgrounds in the crystal powder, and veto liquid scintillator characterization and background measurements.
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Technical staff
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Professor Karl Jakobs (Uni of Freiburg) is an experimental particle physicist with a well-established career using detectors situated at particle colliders.
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Dr Federico Scutti (Swinburne University of Technology) and worked on Heavy Neutrino research with data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, experimental research for the SABRE dark matter experiment, coordinating the software architecture development and the characterisation of the muon system. He has also been involved in muon flux measurement at SUPL.
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Professor Aidan Byrne (Advisory Board Chair) commenced as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of The University of Queensland in 2016.
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Sue retired from her role as Chief Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology in 2018, the culmination of a long Bureau career spanning forecasting, research, science/climate/data policy and leadership roles in IT, observations, engineering and science.
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As Centre Director, Professor Barberio will be responsible for the Centre’s overall strategic direction and operations, with advice from the relevant Centre committees.
Read MoreProfessor Nicole Bell is an international leader in particle and astroparticle physics. She has broad expertise in dark matter phenomenology spanning direct detection, indirect detection, collider searches, astroparticle physics and cosmology.
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Professor Gianfranco Bertone (Uni of Amsterdam) is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist working at the interface between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
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