Matthew Bailes

Matthew Bailes
Known for	Pulsars
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics, pulsars, radio astronomy instrumentations
Institutions	Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Professor Matthew Bailes is Pro Vice-Chancellor(Research) at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology. He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and radio astronomy in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars with Dick Manchester, Shri Kulkarni, Rick Jenet, pulsar, eVLBI and radio astronomy data processing system design. He is now leading his team to run-up Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Lorimer bursts.

Bailes founded the organisation for development of the Virtual Room, an octagonal virtual reality system for displaying the planets, our sun, the stars, the milky way, the galaxies and the universe, etc. He made the film "Realising Einstein's Universe".

Bailes is a committee member of the Australia Telescope Steering Committee and on advisory board of Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER).

External links

• Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology