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Education

Years Qualification
2005-Present University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (in Physics)
Thesis: Galaxy Morphology & Star Formation in the Supercluster Environment
Submitted for examination (April 2008)
2001-2004 University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Australia
Bachelor of Advanced Science (in Physics & Computing Science)
1988-2000 Southern Cross K-12 School, Ballina, NSW Australia
NSW Higher School Certificate

Awards/Scholarships

2005-2008 UQ EPSA Joint Research Scholarship
2003 UNSW School of Physics Summer Vacation Research Scholarship

Teaching Experience

2008 MATE1000 (Physics & Engineering of Materials) Teaching Assistant (Tutor) for the School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland
2005-2007 PHYS1080 (Stars, Galaxies and the Cosmos) Teaching Assistant (Tutor) for the School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland
2003 Astronomy on the Go! Tour of Sydney & NSW Country High Schools for the School of Physics, University of New South Wales
2002 Physics Tutor for Warrane College, University of New South Wales

Publications

2008 Galaxy morphology & star formation in inter-cluster filaments
Moore, J. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Drinkwater, M. J., Colless, M., & Blake, C., submitted for publication.
2006 Mathematical Morphology: Star/Galaxy Differentiation & Galaxy Morphology Classification
Moore, J. A., Pimbblet, K. A., & Drinkwater, M. J., PASA, 23(4), 135 [ABS]

Research Skills

Computing
  • Extremely proficient in C/C++ programming.
  • Proficient in Perl, FORTRAN, MATLAB, Java, LaTeX and HTML.
  • Experienced with both Linux and Windows environments.
Astronomy
  • Observing with the ATCA (4 days) in Narrabri and the AAT (4 nights) in Siding Spring.
  • Developing reduction & calibration pipelines for wide-field photometric data.
  • Velocity & equivalent width analysis of multi-object spectroscopic data.
  • Manipulation of large multi-wavelength data sets.

Memberships

2005-Present Student Member of the Astronomical Society of Australia