Mr Alan Chan

Chan, Alan profile
Position Honours Student
Department Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics
Research group Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics
Email
Office Physics North 1 64
Webpage https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~alanc

Research interests

Dark energy, Cosmology, Active Galactic Nucleus, Supernovae, Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Education

Undergraduate Student - Bachelor of Science (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Diploma of Engineering (Macquarie University, 2021); StudIEAust

Biography

I'm an undergraduate research student at ANU working in observational cosmology and gravitational-wave astronomy. My research mainly focuses on supernovae, galaxies and understanding how observational effects can influence cosmological measurements. I also work on gravitational-wave instrumentation and spend a fair bit of time doing astronomy and outreach.

Outreach

Chief Astronomer and President of the ANU Astronomy Society

Teaching

First Year Physics Lab (PHYS1101, PHYS1201)

Recent academic seminars

- The XIX International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC2026)/4th Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Astroparticle Physics