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Tessa Vernstrom is an adjunct senior lecturer and senior research fellow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia. She specializes in extragalactic radio astronomy and holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Astronomy from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Tessa worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Professor Bryan Gaensler at the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto. She has received the Bolton Fellowship from CSIRO in Perth and has been involved in significant projects within the radio astronomy community, including the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey, and is currently the Project Scientist for the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM) utilizing the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. Tessa is also actively engaged in leadership roles, serving as co-chair of the cosmic magnetism science working group for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and chair of the SKA Pathfinders Radio Continuum Surveys (SPARCS) working group. Her research interests include cosmic magnetism, galaxy clusters, large-scale structure, radio galaxies, high-redshift galaxies, and galaxy evolution.
EMU survey • Perth, Australia
Responsible for overseeing the Evolutionary Map of the Universe survey project.
CSIRO • Perth, Australia
Conducted research on cosmic magnetism and collaborated with various radio astronomy projects.
Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto • Toronto, Canada
Research focus on extragalactic radio astronomy under Professor Bryan Gaensler.
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