Dr. Henry Zovaro

Biography

Henry Zovaro completed a double degree in Science, majoring in Physics and Mechatronic Engineering, specializing in Space Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2015. He developed interesting undergraduate research projects in astronomy and later focused on an honours project evaluating the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in optical adaptive optics systems for small telescopes. In 2016, he moved to Canberra to start his PhD at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University (ANU), where he studied how jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) affect galaxy evolution using some of the largest telescopes in the world, such as Keck and Gemini North in Hawaii. After submitting his PhD in 2019, Henry stayed at ANU and worked as an instrument scientist for the Giant Magellan Telescope's Integral Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS), where he developed software for simulating and processing observations made by the future instrument. In 2020, he returned to astrophysics full-time, engaging in projects involving radio galaxies, photoionization modeling, and studying winds in thick disks of star-forming galaxies. He is also a member of the Hector Galaxy Survey, where he is leading the development of scientific data products for public release in future data releases.

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