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I'm a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Astrophysics and Computing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. I've been
working at the CAS since July 2004, before which I was a PhD student at the
Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at the University of
Durham in the UK, where I worked closely with my supervisors Prof. Carlos Frenk and Dr. Adrian Jenkins. My thesis focused on the inner structure of
dark matter haloes.
My area of research is computational cosmology and my interests are diverse.
At the moment I spend most of time thinking about galaxy formation at high
redshifts -- when the first generations of galaxies form -- and in the
aftermath of cosmological reionisation -- which is believed to be intimately
linked to these first galaxies. I'm also interested in the nature of the dark
matter, which basically means characterising the properties of dark matter
haloes in precise detail and in various dark matter models. I am heavily involved in the Commonwealth Cosmology Initiative, a
5-year Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council. More details about
my research interests and the kind of projects I am involved in can be found
here.
In January 2008 I will be moving to the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the University of Leicester to work with Dr. Sergei Nayakshin and Prof. Andrew King.
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