Students

Daniel Avraham is an MPhil student at the Australian National University (ANU) under the supervision of Professor Gregory Lane and Dr Lindsey Bignell. With a background in Statistics and Data Science, his research focuses on leveraging machine learning—particularly neural networks integrated with Gas TPC detectors—to predict particle directionality, paving the way for his transition to a PhD program.

Amrita is a PhD student at Swinburne University, working with Prof. Darren Croton and Prof. Karl Glazebrook. Her research area includes N-body simulation, semi-analytic galaxy model, and JWST.

Robert Crew is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia working under the supervision of Professor Michael Tobar. He has also been a CDM summer student during his undergraduate studies.

Yona is a MSc student at The University of Melbourne working under the supervision of Professor Elisabetta Barberio on the SABRE South Experiment.

Jackson Dun is a Master of Science student studying experimental particle physics at The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Phillip Urquijo, with interests in the Belle II experiment.

Shayne is a Masters student at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Phillip Urquijo. His focus of research involves work on the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiment.

Jake Felix is currently carrying-out an honours degree at The University of Adelaide with a research project in theoretical physics under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Thomas and Dr. Xuan-Gong Wang . The details of his project is to look at constraints on the dark photon.

Cameron Harris is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide working under the supervision of Prof Paul Jackson.

Georgia is a MSc student at the University of Melbourne working on the SABRE South experiment under the supervision of Prof. Elisabetta Barberio.

Sharry is a PhD student at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Dr. Theresa Fruth. Her area of research is Dark Matter direct detection in SABRE."

Kael Kemp is a Honours student at the University of Adelaide working under the supervision of Professor Paul Jackson. Kael will be studying Higgs boson physics at the Future Circular Collider at CERN.

Akshayan Manivannan is a Masters student at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Elisabetta Barberio

Michael Mews is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne.

He works on the SABRE South experiment.

Lachlan Milligan is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. He participates in the SABRE South experiment and has also worked with DSTG developing a GEANT4 simulation modelling a new neutron spectrometer.

Kieran Murphy is a Bachelor of Science student at the University of Melbourne, currently working on dark sector searches in Belle II under the supervision of Professor Phillip Urquijo.

Emma Paterson is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia working under the supervision of Dr Jeremy Bourhill.

Sai is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne and is working under the supervision of Profs. Phillip Urquijo and Elisabetta Barberio. He is interested in the applications of Machine Learning to particle physics experiments and has previously worked on a search for Axion-Like Particles in B-meson decays with the LHCb collaboration as part of his Masters' degree at Monash University, and on track reconstruction algorithms with the CYGNUS-Oz collaboration at the ANU.

Haylea Purnell is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide working under the supervision of Prof Paul Jackson.

Ananthu is a Joint PhD candidate at SUBATECH, Nantes, France and the University of Melbourne, Australia, as part of the AUFRANDE program.

Matthew Rumley is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide working under the supervision of Prof Anthony Thomas.

Mo is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Physics, at Swinburne University. He holds an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from RMIT University and is a Summer Vacation Scholar at the University of Melbourne’s Dark Matter Centre node, where he is working on Dark Matter Detection under the supervision of Professors Phillip Urquijo and Elisabetta Barberio.

Steven Samuels is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia working under the supervision of Professor Michael Tobar.

Mannix Showell is a physics student at the University of Melbourne (B.Sci/D-MATHSC) working on simulation and data processing for direct detection of dark matter at SABRE South supervised by Professor Phillip Urquijo. 

Owen is a PhD student in a Joint PhD between University of Melbourne and Subatech Laboratory (Nantes, France) as part of a joint program between the University of Melbourne and the CNRS. Working with Prof. Elisabetta Barberio, Prof. Phillip Urquijo and Dr, Sara Diglio. Working on instrumentation and simulation for the SABRE South experiment and the XLZD/DARWIN collaboration.

Michael Sun is a physics student at the University of Melbourne (B.Sci/D-COMP), currently undertaking a vacation studentship working on data processing for SABRE South's direct detection experiment under the supervision of Professor Phillip Urquijo.

Scott Thompson is a Master of Science student at the University of Melbourne. He is studying theoretical particle physics under the supervision of Prof. Raymond Volkas

Michael Verde is a Masters student at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof Nicole Bell. His area of research is in dark matter phenomenology.

 Emily Waterman is an Honours student at the University of Western Australia, working under Professor Michael Tobar in the Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter Research Lab to investigate a method detecting axions using a high-voltage capacitor.

Rickson Wielian is an Honours student at the Australian National University.