Astrophiz100-Dr Vanessa Moss

Published: March 21, 2020, 9:46 p.m.

b'Our featured guest for this special 100th episode is Dr Vanessa Moss, astronomer and Head of CSIRO\\u2019s ASKAP Science Operations. CSIRO is Australia\\u2019s leading science organisation and ASKAP is the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope array in Western Australia.\\n\\nVanessa tells us about her PhD \\xa0\\u2018The Galactic ecosystem: Outflow and infall in the halo of the Milky Way\\u201d and her\\xa0work at Sydney Observatory.\\n\\nWe 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, \\nWe 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\\xa0Milky Way Halo research, the SEAFOG project and working on the FLASH team.'