Astrophiz100-Dr Vanessa Moss

Astrophiz Astronomy Podcasts

Our featured guest for this special 100th episode is Dr Vanessa Moss, astronomer and Head of CSIRO’s ASKAP Science Operations. CSIRO is Australia’s leading science organisation and ASKAP is the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope array in Western Australia. Vanessa tells us about her PhD ‘The Galactic ecosystem: Outflow and infall in the halo of the Milky Way” and her work at Sydney Observatory. We hear about her move over to Dwingeloo in the Netherlands to work as a telescope scientist with ASTRON, working with the Apertif upgrade on the WSRT and LOFAR, We look at the Big Data issues growing in radio astronomy and her vision to harness VR as a way of visualising both data, workflow and instrument training. We hear about her current Milky Way Halo research, the SEAFOG project and working on the FLASH team.