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Date of Birth |
15 March 1978 |
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Education |
2008 |
Summer School in Cosmology,
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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2002 – 2006 |
University of New South Wales
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Thesis: "Isotope shift and relativistic shift in atomic spectra".
Submitted January 2006; accepted March 2006.
Graduated 30 March 2006.
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2004 |
Courses in tutoring, assessment, and group learning, UNSW.
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2002 |
High Powered Computing course, APAC National Facility
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1996 – 1999 |
University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Science – Physics with Computer Science
- Physics honours – first class honours with a University Medal
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Awards received |
Gordon Godfrey Scholarship for Theoretical Physics (2002 – 2005)
Australian Postgraduate Award (2002 – 2005)
Postgraduate Poster competition winner, School of Physics, UNSW (2004)
University Medal: Physics with Computer Science (1999)
Summer Vacation Scholarship (December 1998 to February 1999)
at the Special Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics (a division of the CSIRO).
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Work experience |
2011 – |
University of New South Wales
Lecturer
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2007 – 2010 |
University of New South Wales
Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Columbia University, New York
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
Astrophysics Laboratory
09/2007 – 04/2008
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2006 – 2007 |
Auburn University, Alabama
DoE Postdoctoral Fellow
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2005 – 2006 |
University of New South Wales
Research Associate (Education)
- Creation of course material for first year physics, including laboratory equipment, online quizzes, and lecture preparation.
- Development of "Exploratorials". This newfangled teaching mode combines lectures, tutorials and laboratory work to provide a complete introduction to a topic.
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2002 – 2005 |
University of New South Wales
Tutor, lecturer, laboratory supervisor
- Course delivery, including class tutoring, duty tutoring, and laboratory demonstrating and supervision.
- Bridging course lecturer and substitute lecturing.
- Organising and supervision first year labs.
- Strategy, planning and design of new labs that bridge the gap between regular labs and projects (introduced in 2004).
- Editing and proofing first year tests.
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2000 – 2001 |
Smartlogic Plc. (UK)
Software Engineer
- Design, programming, testing, and debugging of automatic document
categorisation software in C++. This software parses text documents and
sorts them using heuristic rules and a knowledge base. It also extracts
previously unknown company names. The software is used by major news
service providers.
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1999 – 2000 |
Pacific Gaming Pty. Ltd.
Software Engineer
- C/assembler programming, debugging and troubleshooting in an
embedded system; application of gaming legislation; compliance testing.
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1999 |
UNSW Science Camp and Scifest
Physics exhibition supervisor/demonstrator
- Science communication to young students in primary and high school.
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1995 – 1999 |
Private tutor
- Teaching maths and physics of various difficulty to many high school students,
from Year 9 through to HSC level.
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Other roles |
- Physoc president (1998)
- Helped start the postgraduate division of Physoc in 2003, and began the role of Postgraduate Representative of Physoc (also held in 2004).
- Started the Postgraduate Seminar Series in 2003 and 2004 with other postgraduates and Physoc.
- Student representative on the Physics Postgraduate Committee since 2004.
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Referees |
Prof. Victor Flambaum
Head of Theoretical Physics
School of Physics
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
Ph: +61 2 9385 4571
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Prof. Richard Newbury
Head of School
School of Physics
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
Ph: +61 2 9385 4976
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