My academic history
I am a
Staff Associate Scientist in Astronomy in the Science
Support and Research Division of the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
I am a Group Lead and the Head of the Jansky
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, NM-local coordinator of the
NRAO/GBO summer student program, I organise a number of user
support training events and workshops (just like the famous
NRAO summer school on synthesis imaging), and I help astronomers
from anywhere in the world to use the VLA and VLBA. From the
technical telescope support side, I work on the VLA primary
calibration for science. I have been with NRAO since 2018,
and I am based predominantly in Socorro, NM (although I do
visit NRAO on the east side of the country quite often).
Outside of the NRAO work, I am a
Project Manager (and webmaster)
of the
Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) all-sky radio
survey being executed with the
Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP),
and I am leading its radio-loud AGN science. I have held this
position since 2014, and I am thrilled that almost a decade
later we are finally looking into real EMU data.
Since 2022 I have also been on the
Editorial Board of the
Publications of the Astronomical Society of
Australia (PASA), as an Associate Scientific Editor. PASA
is a small peer-review journal in astronomy and astrophysics,
but a very influential one, and I encourage everyone to consider
submitting their scientific articles to PASA. Published by
the Cambridge University Press, PASA is a Q1 journal, with 2022
impact factor of 6.3.