My teaching and supervision activities focus on student research and mentorship. I have supervised or co-supervised four PhD students, including my current role as lead supervisor for one, and have served as primary supervisor for 11 undergraduate and two Honours students from a total of 19 undergraduate and three Honours students supervised. I also contribute to course design and delivery within the USyd School of Physics.
OLES1603: Astronomy: Exploring the Universe (Sem 1 2026, USyd)
Developed outline slides for the stars and galaxies lectures and participated in curriculum planning meetings.
OLET1638: Astronomy from Stars to Black Holes (Sem 1 2025 April Intensive, USyd)
Lectured for this four-session intensive course, substantially revising provided materials to align with updated quizzes.
OLET1636: Astronomy from Earth to Exoplanets (Sem 1 2025 March Intensive, USyd)
Lectured for this four-session intensive course, substantially revising provided materials to align with updated quizzes.
PHYS2014/PHYS2914: Data Science in Astronomy (2 lectures, USyd, 2024 Sem 2)
Assisted in developing materials for a new data science course, and designed and delivered two lectures and labs on clustering techniques applied to stellar variability.
ASTR 1109: Stellar Astronomy Lab (4 semesters, LSU)
Sole instructor for four semesters. Developed four new labs, managed all curriculum and assessment, and received strong student feedback.
Cameron Davidson
PhD student, lead-supervisor, 2026–present
Infrared Dust Evolution of R Coronae Borealis Stars
Lea Schimak
PhD student, co-supervisor, 2023–present
Asteroseismology of binary red giants
Yingxiang Wang
PhD student, co-supervisor, 2023–present
Simple and accurate measurements of red giant asteroseismic parameters
Lauren Barkey Independent research, lead-supervisor, May 2026-present Spectrophotometric Variability of HdC Stars
Maya Carlyon SSP, co-supervisor with May Gade Pedersen, 2026 Sem 1 Contamination from nearby sources in TESS photometric data
Julius Hamprecht & Michael Shen
SSP, co-supervisor with Lea Schimak, 2025 Sem 2
Measuring masses of red giant stars with asteroseismology and machine learning
Michael El-Hurr
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2025 Sem 2
Temperature class and carbon molecular band strengths of hydrogen-deficient carbon stars during pulsation
Jonas Káral
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2025 Sem 2
Post-merger simulations of DY Persei variable stars
Xander Buckingham
SSP, co-supervisor with Lea Schimak, 2025 Sem 1
Convective boundaries in He-burning stellar models
Josh Ferguson
Dalyell, sole-supervisor, 2025 Sem 1
Characterisation of radio-emitting eclipsing binaries
Isabella Treloar & Ozan Kocatepe
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2024 Sem 2
Spectroscopy of pulsations in RCB and dLHdC stars
Haonan Li
Honours, sole-supervisor, 2024 Sem 1–present
Anomalous peaks and potential tertiary systems found via Kepler oscillating star data
Jasmyn Curry
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2024 Sem 1
Spectroscopy of pulsations in RCB stars
Josh Ferguson
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2024 Sem 1
Dipole mode suppression in the Kepler red giant sample
George Feng
SSP, co-supervisor, 2024 Sem 1
A red giant in the Pleiades cluster
Nikita Nikultsev
Honours, sole-supervisor, 2023 Sem 1 & 2
Merging with MESA: Modelling DY Pers by fusing white dwarfs
Maxwell Bennett
Honours, co-supervisor, 2023 Sem 1 & 2
Photometry in crowded stellar fields with NASA’s TESS mission
Noah Smith & Nayan Gallego Sivaraman
SSP, co-supervisor, 2023 Sem 2
Analysis of the emission from low-mass X-ray binary A0620-00 over 6 years
Caleb Clark
SSP, sole-supervisor, 2023 Sem 1
An automated pipeline to find RCB dust declines
Amelie Read
Denison Scholar, co-supervisor, 2023 Summer
Searching the Gaia and TESS data for delta Scuti stars
Yifan Chen
Dalyell, co-supervisor, 2022 Sem 2
Automated detection and refinement of asteroseismic parameters in 16,000 stars
Alexander Jephtha
SSP, co-supervisor, 2022 Sem 2
A search for oscillating wide binaries
Cameron Davidson
SSP, co-supervisor, 2022 Sem 2
Verifying the low-mass Kepler red giants