Education and professional background

1977 - 1980

B.E. (First Class Honours), School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney (Australia).

November, 1979 - March, 1980

Student engineer,Leeds and Northrup Australia Pty Ltd.

1981 - 1984

Tutor, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney (Australia).

1981 - July, 1985

Ph.D., University of Sydney (Australia). Thesis topic: ``Design and application of an image processing environment''. Supervisor: Professor T.W. Cole.

July, 1985 - June, 1986

Research Officer, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia).

July, 1986 - May, 1990

Research scientist, Astronomy Department, University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A), for the National Center for Supercomputer Applications.

June, 1990 - September, 1990

Visiting scientist, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, GMRT Project, Poona University (Pune, India).

September, 1990 - July 2006

Research scientist, CSIRO - Australia Telescope National Facility (Sydney, Australia).

February, 1994 - July, 1994; January, 1995 - June 1995

Visiting scientist, ASTRON (Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)

January, 2002 - March, 2006

Officer-in-Charge, Narrabri (Paul Wild) Observatory - Australia Telescope National Facility (Narrabri, Australia).

October, 2006 - January 2007

Visiting Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics & MIT Haystack Observatory (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

February, 2007 - current

Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)

February, 2007 - current

Research Associate, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)