Matthew Bailes

Matthew Bailes
Alma materAustralian National University (PhD)
AwardsAustralian Laureate Fellowship (2015)
Shaw Prize (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Pulsars
Fast radio bursts
Gravitational waves
InstitutionsSwinburne University of Technology
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
ThesisThe origin of pulsar velocities (1989)
Doctoral students
Websitewww.astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/mbailes.html

Matthew Bailes FAA is an astrophysicist and Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts. He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery. He is now leading his team to re-engineer the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).