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Dr Ashley Ruiter
PhD 2009 USA, MSc 2005 Canada,BSc (Hon) 2002 Canada
In 2017 I was awarded a Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in the School of Science at theUniversity of New South Wales Canberra. I’m working on connecting different types of stellarexplosions to their progenitors(e.g. age of star when it exploded, how massive it was, nature ofcompanion star). More information is available on my personal webpage:In 2023 I became the Vice-President of the .
From April 2014 -Oct2017 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics(Mount Stromlo) in the group of Brian Schmidt at theAustralian National University.
Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at theMax Planck Institute for Astrophysicsin the supernova group of Wolfgang Hillebrandt in Garching, Germany (Sept 2009 -April 2014).
I received my PhD in2009fromNew Mexico State Universityin Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, under the supervision of K. Belczynski. I spent the last year of my PhD at theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicsin Cambridge, Mass, USA, in J. Grindlay’s high energy group.
Pre-PhD, I received my Masters fromSaint Mary’s Universityin Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (2005), and my Bachelors degree fromYork Universityin Toronto, Canada (2002), where I was active in leading observatory tours.
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2018-2023: ZPEM 2509 - Astrophysics (lectures, labs, tutorials, Convener 2021-2023)
2021-2023: ZPEM 3532 - Special Topics in Physics & Oceanography (lectures and project supervisor)
2023-2024: ZPEM 1501 - Mechanics, Waves & Thermodynamics (lectures, labs, tutorials; Convener 2024)
2023: ZPEM 1502 - Electromagnetism & Modern Physics (tutorials)
2022: ZPEM 2405 - Special Topics in Oceanography (Convener)
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ARC FT170100243
Universities-Australia -- Germany joint partnership scheme (2023-2024)
ARC LE230100063
Goldstar awards 2023, 2024
I currently (mid-2024) supervise 3 PhD students and one honours student. More information is available on my personal webpage.
My Research Supervision
N. Rodrìguez-Segovia
E. Owusu
P. Das
My Teaching
I currently teach half of the 2nd year Astrophysics course for Physics majors at Canberra, ZPEM 2509.