Research

ARC Discovery Project grant

ARC Discovery Project grant

We've been awarded a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC)! Together with Jason X. Prochaska at the UCO/Lick Observatory and University of California, Santa Cruz, we've been awarded funding…
Eureka Prize!

Eureka Prize!

We were awarded the 2012 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research at a gala event last night! My long-time collaborators at the University of New South Wales – John Webb, Victor Flambaum, Julian…
Australia’s first ‘astrocomb’

Australia’s first ‘astrocomb’

We've demonstrated an 'astrocomb' on an Australian telescope for the first time! An 'astrocomb' is a femtosecond laser frequency comb fired into an astronomical spectrograph. Frequency combs earned their inventors…
Nature’s laws may vary across sky!

Nature’s laws may vary across sky!

We have uncovered possible evidence for variations in one of nature's fundamental 'constants' across the sky and possibly throughout the universe. Physical Review Letters has just published our findings (2011/10/31), which combine…
World’s first ‘astrocomb’

World’s first ‘astrocomb’

We've demonstrated the world's first 'astrocomb'! An 'astrocomb' is a femtosecond laser frequency comb fired into an astronomical spectrograph. Frequency combs earned their inventors – Ted Hänsch and John Hall –…