Matthew Bailes | |
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| Alma mater | Australian National University (PhD) |
| Awards | Australian Laureate Fellowship (2015)[1] Shaw Prize (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics Pulsars Fast radio bursts Gravitational waves[2] |
| Institutions | Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing |
| Thesis | The origin of pulsar velocities (1989) |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | www |
Matthew BailesFAA is an astrophysicist and Professor at theCentre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing,Swinburne University of Technology[2] and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won anARC Laureate Fellowship to work onFast Radio Bursts.[1][5] He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary andmillisecond pulsars,gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery. He is now leading his team to re-engineer theMolonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars andFast Radio Bursts (FRBs).[6]
Bailes was educated at theAustralian National University, graduating with aPhD in 1989.[7]
Bailes research interests are inastrophysics,pulsars,fast radio bursts andgravitational waves.[2][8][9]
Bailes founded the organisation for development of the Virtual Room, an octagonal virtual reality system for displaying the planets, the Sun, the stars, the Milky Way, the galaxies and the universe, etc. He made the 3D filmRealising Einstein's Universe. His former doctoral students includeDuncan Lorimer.[4]
Bailes is a committee member of theAustralia Telescope Steering Committee[10] and on advisory board of Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER).
Bailes was elected aFellow of theAustralian Academy of Science (FAAS) in 2022.[11] In 2023, he was awarded theShaw Prize in Astronomy shared equally withDuncan Lorimer andMaura McLaughlin for their discovery of FRBs.[12][13][14] In 2024, Bailes was awarded thePrime Minister's Prize for Science for his work in the discovery of FRBs.[15]