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Dr. Simon Murphy is a Lecturer in the School of Science at the University of New South Wales. He obtained his PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the Australian National University in 2012, where his thesis focused on the populations of young stars in the southern sky, particularly in nearby open clusters like Eta Chamaeleontis. Following his doctoral studies, he was a Gliese Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany from 2013-2014, where he identified new stellar moving group members utilizing data from the Gaia satellite astrometry mission. In 2015, he returned to Australia to work at ANU and took on a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UNSW Canberra in 2016. Dr. Murphy's research interests revolve around identifying and characterizing the youngest stars in the Solar neighborhood, serving as ideal laboratories for understanding early stellar evolution and the conditions under which planets form. He leverages observations from a variety of telescopes and participates in international efforts such as the Virtual Observatory for the development of standards in the exchange and analysis of astronomical data.
University of New South Wales • Canberra, Australia
Lecturer teaching physics and astronomy courses.
University of Heidelberg • Germany
Conducted research on identifying new stellar moving group members.
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