We welcome Wael Farah and Aditya Parthasarathy, both of whom will be starting their PhD work on projects on UTMOST.

Aditya comes to us from India, where he did a Bachelor of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, and has worked at the Raman Research Institute and also at Swinburne as a visiting scholar in 2015. Aditya is initially developing an active scheduling system for UTMOST. Welcome back Aditya!

Wael has a BSc in physics (Lebanese University) and a MSc in astrophysics (Notre Dame University – Louaize). His masters’ work was on stellar atmospheric  parameter determination (theoretical and observational). Wael will be working initially on excising radio interference from Molonglo data and a live FRB alert system.