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Professor at the University of Western Australia since 2010, leading the Data Intensive Astronomy Program at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). He has expertise in designing and implementing Petabyte scale data flows for high performance scientific computing, focusing on projects such as the Square Kilometre Array and Murchison Wide Field Array. His academic background includes experience in software development involving photometric and astrometric data from the ESA Hipparcos satellite. Wicenec held the position of Archive Specialist at the European Southern Observatory, where he was instrumental in implementing the archive for the Very Large Telescope and led the development of the ALMA archive subsystem. His research interests encompass high precision global astrometry, optical background radiation, stellar photometry, and planetary nebula dynamics, with a significant contribution towards managing and processing observational astronomical data. Additionally, he is involved in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance and emphasizes research in efficient data archiving, data flow optimization, and software development that supports large-scale astronomical projects.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Leading the Data Intensive Astronomy Program at ICRAR.
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