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My current position is that of Professor of Astronomy at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the The Australian National University.
My research interests include the stellar populations of dwarf galaxies, the origin of abundance anomalies in globular cluster stars, and the star clusters of the Magellanic Clouds. I am currently looking forward to the research opportunities that the ANU's new SkyMapper telescope will provide when science operations start late in 2009.

I served as RSAA Associate Director (Academic) from 2004 to 2007 and was Interim Director for 4 months in 2007. I have also been Vice-President (2003-2005), President (2005-2007) and Immediate Past President (2007-2009) of the Astronomical Society of Australia. I am a member of the Australian Gemini Steering Committee and at the moment I am the ANU's representative on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Giant Magellan Telescope project. I am also a former President of Commission 37 (Stars Clusters and Associations) of the International Astronomical Union.

  PDF's of Presentations 

  Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters (complied by Bill Harris at McMaster University)


Contact Details:
Mail and Courier:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mount Stromlo Observatory
via Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT 2611
Australia

Office:  +61 2 6125 8913   (within Australia (02) 6125 8913)
Fax:       +61 2 6125 0233   (within Australia (02) 6125 0233)
E-mail:    gdc 'at' mso.anu.edu.au


Last Update: July 2009