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Achievements and Awards

  • 1995-1999

    Australian Coal Association Prize for Outstanding Research
    Australian Coal Association

  • 2003-2006

    Australian Engineers Excellence Award 2007 'Multi-Gigabit, mm-wave Wireless'
    Engineers Australia

  • 2002-2005

    NASA Space Board Award for “Deep Space Array Based Network Beamformer
    NASA

  • 2006-2011

    Australian Engineers Excellence Award 2012 ‘Ngara Backhaul’ Australian Innovation Award
    Engineers Australia

  • 2004-2012

    Australian Engineers Excellence Award 2013 Australian Innovation Award
    Engineers Australia

  • 1999-2014

    The Australian Innovation Challenge 2013, Manufacturing, Construction and Infrastructure, and Overall winner
    The Australian in association with Shell and with the support of the federal Department of Industry and Science

  • 2004-2021

    Peter McGregor Prize 2022
    Astronomical Society of Australia

Other highlights

  • 2012-2021

    Development of Correlator and Beamformer designs for SKA leading to the award of the contract for same to CSIRO

  • 2004-2020

    Project Engineer for the ASKAP Radio Telescope from design concept to successful operation.

  • 1999-2004

    Development of Cylindrical Reflector concept for SKA which eventually lead to ASKAP design concept.

  • 1989-1992

    Audio Engineer for the A4 chip project including design of chip and development of practical demonstations with the chip

  • 1982-1998

    Engineer-in-charge Fleurs Synthesis Telescope.