Curriculum Vitæ - Duncan Galloway

EDUCATION

• PhD, University of Tasmania, 2001.
• Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, Monash University, 2015
• Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours, University of Tasmania, 1991.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My primary research interests concern the nature and properties of accreting neutron star binaries. A neutron star is the extreme product of a supernova explosion in a moderately massive star. Accreting binaries consist of a compact object orbited by a (relatively!) normal stellar companion, which donates matter typically via Roche-lobe ovrflow, offerring a unique window on some rich physics via satellite-based X-ray observations.

My research involves observational studies of thermonuclear (type-I) bursts, merging compact objects, and accretion-powered millisecond pulsars using ground- and satellite-based observatories, including GOTO, INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift. The goals include improved understanding of the physical processes; measuring the rates of nuclear reactions (via collaborating members of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics, IReNA); and constraining the uncertain neutron star equation of state.

I am the Monash PI of the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observatory (GOTO) project, which operates a network of optical telescopes to respond autonomously to gravitational wave detections by the Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) as well as gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift.

EMPLOYMENT

• Associate professor, Monash University, 2018—present
• Senior lecturer, Monash University, 2013—2017
• ARC Future Fellow, Monash University, 2009—2013
• Monash Fellow, Monash University, 2007—2009
• Centenary Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2005—2007
• Postdoctoral Associate, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT 2004—2005
• Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Space Research, MIT 2000—2003
  
• PhD in X-ray astronomy, University of Tasmania 1996—2000
  Thesis title: Spectrum and Pulse Profile Formation in Strong-Field X-ray Pulsars.
  
• Experimental Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science 1992—1996

OTHER POSITIONS

• Member, International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics, IReNA), 2024-
• Affiliate, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), 2021-
• Member of the LSST Transients & Variable Star collaboration
• Member, Astronomical Society of Australia’s Women in Astronomy (WiA) and Education & Public Outreach (EPOC) chapters; also member, ASA Council, 2013—2017; vice-president 2015—2016 Nov
• Member, International Astronomical Union, 2003—
• Chief investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGRav), 2017—24
• Senior Investigator, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE), 2014—21
• Science Lead, eROSITA/AAL collaboration, 2021—22
• Principal Investigator, Australian LSST MoU (via AAL), 2018—21
• Chair, Australian National Committee for Astronomy’s Decadal Plan 2016—25 working group 1.4: High energy and fundamental astrophysics, 2013—15
• Member, Australia Telescope Time Assignment Committee, 2012 Nov—15 & Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer peer reviewer, 2000—2001
• Member, Australian National Committee for Astronomy’s Decadal Review 2006—15 working groups 2.2 (Nearby Universe) and 3.1 (International Facilities), 2004—2005
• Member, LIGO Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Panel, 2013—14
• Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Astrophysical Journal

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Current HDR students:
  • Sergey Belkin (PhD with Felipe Jiménez-Ibarra & Kendall Ackley, 2023—)
• Previous students:
  • Ka Ho Tse (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2020—23)
  • Yik Lun (Travis) Mong (PhD with Kendall Ackley, 2018—22)
  • Adelle Goodwin (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2017—20 & Honours 2016); now postdoc at ICRAR, Curtin, WA
  • Zac Johnston (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2016—19); now postdoc at MSU
  • Shanika Galaudage (Honours 2018); now postdoc at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
  • Hauke Worpel (PhD with Daniel Price, 2011—14); now postdoc in Barcelona, Spain
  • Shakya Premachandra (PhD with Danny Steeghs, Warwick, 2010—15)
  • Nathanael Lampe (Honours 2012—13) now Senior Data Scientist at Vicinity Centres
  • Dane Kleiner (Honours 2009) then PhD 2012—2017 with Kevin Pimbblet
  • Timothy Atta (Honours 2009)
• ASP3051 Relativity and Cosmology lecturing & course coordination, 2014—24
• ASP3231 Observational Astronomy “Beyond Optical” component, 2008—24
• ASP2011 Astronomy Coordination & lecturing, 2024; “Celestial mechanics” component, 2023; “Measuring Stars” component & course coordination, 2014; “Measurement Techniques” component, 2007
• ASP2062 Introduction to Astrophysics lecturing & course coordination, 2014—17

AWARDS & HONORS

• Fellow, Astronomical Society of Australia, 2011— (member since 1997)
• University Medal in Physics, University of Tasmania, 1992
• Dean’s Citation, University of Tasmania, 1991
• Dean’s Roll of Excellence, University of Tasmania, 1988—90
• Digby Fitzhardinge Memorial Prize for Physics I, University of Tasmania, 1988
• University Exhibition, University of Tasmania, 1987

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Total of 125 publications in astrophysics (excluding conference proceedings) since 1998, with 5715 citations (as of November 2024; source: NASA ADS). See also my Google scholar page

• Killestein, T.L., Ramsay, G., Kennedy, M., including Galloway, D.K. (2025). GOTO065054+593624: a peculiar dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers. A&A, submitted
  [ arXiv:2501.11524 ]

• Pursiainen, M., Killestein, T. L., Kuncarayakti, H. et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2025). Optical evolution of AT 2024wpp: the high-velocity outflows in Cow-like transients are consistent with high spherical symmetry. MNRAS, submitted
  [ arXiv:2411.03272 ]

• Fu, T., Zhaosheng, L., Pan, Y. et al, including Galloway, D.K. (2025). A comprehensive study of type I (thermonuclear) bursts in the new transient SRGA J144459.2—604207. ApJ, accepted
  [ arXiv:2412.05779 ]

• You, Z-Q., Xingjiang, Z., Liu, X., et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2025). The birth mass function of neutron stars. Nature Astronomy, accepted
  [ arXiv:2412.05524 ]

• Warwick, B., Lyman, J., Pursiainen, M. et al, including Galloway, D.K. (2025). SN 2023tsz: a helium-interaction-driven supernova in a very low-mass galaxy. MNRAS, 536, 3588
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2409.14147 ]

• Kongsathitporn, N., Supratak, A., Noysena, K. et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2024). Leveraging Movement Representation from Contrastive Learning for Asteroid Detection. PASP 136, #1234507
  [ ADS | IOP ]

• Kini, Y., Salmi, T., Vinciguerra, et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2024). Constraining the properties of the thermonuclear burst oscillation source XTE J1814-338 through pulse profile modelling. MNRAS, 535, 1
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2405.10717 ]

• Galloway, D.K., Goodwin, A. J., Hilder, T., Waterson, L., Cupák, M. (2024). Inferring system parameters from the bursts of the accretion-powered pulsar IGR J17498-2921. MNRAS, 535, 647
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2403.16471 ]

• Killestein, T. L., Kelsey, L., Wickens, E., et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2024). Kilonova Seekers: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics. MNRAS 533, 2113
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2406.02334 ]

• Belkin, S. et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2024). GRB 230911A: The First Discovery of a Fermi GRB Optical Counterpart with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) RNAAS, 8, #1
  [ IOP | ADS ]

• Levan, A. et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2024). JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger Nature 626, 737
  [ Nature | ADS | arXiv:2307.02098 ]

• Patel, M. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2023). GRB 201015A and the nature of low-luminosity soft gamma-ray bursts. MNRAS 523(4), 4923
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2305.14491 ]

• Alizai, K., Chenevez, J., Cumming, A., Degenaar, N., Falanga, M., Galloway, D. K., in’t Zand, J. J. M., Jaisawal, G. K., Keek, L., Kuulkers, E., Lampe, N., Schatz, H., Serino, M. (2023). A catalogue of unusually long thermonuclear bursts on neutron stars. MNRAS 521, 3608
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2308.03499 ]

• Killestein, T. L., Mould, M., Steeghs, D., Casares, J., Galloway, D. K., Whelan, J. T. (2023). Precision Ephemerides for Gravitational-wave Searches - IV. Corrected and refined ephemeris for Scorpius X-1. MNRAS 520, 5317
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2302.00018 ]

• Mong, Y. -L., Ackley, K., Killestein, T. L., Galloway, D. K. for the GOTO collaboration (2022). Self-Supervised Clustering on Image-Subtracted Data with Deep-Embedded Self-Organizing Map MNRAS 518, 752
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2209.06375 ]

• Schatz, H. search by orcid ; Becerril Reyes, A. D. ; Best, A. et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2022). Horizons: nuclear astrophysics in the 2020s and beyond. J. Phys. G. 49(11), #110502
  [ IOP | ADS | arXiv:2205.07996 ]

• Galloway, D. K., Johnston, Z., Goodwin, A. J., He, C.-C. (2022). Robust inference of neutron-star parameters from thermonuclear burst observations ApJS 263, 30
  [ IOP | ADS | arXiv:2210.03598 ]

• Duffy, C., Ramsay, G., et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2022). The return of the spin period in DW Cnc and evidence of new high state outbursts. MNRAS 510(1), 1002-1009
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2111.10416 ]

• Steeghs, D., Galloway, D.K. for the GOTO Collaboration (2022). The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science. MNRAS 511(2), 2405-2422
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2110.05539 ]

• Galaudage, S., Wette, K., Galloway, D. K., Messenger C. (2022). Deep searches for X-ray pulsations from Scorpius X-1 and Cygnus X-2 in support of continuous gravitational wave searches. MNRAS 509(2), 1745
  [ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2105.13803 ]

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