Simon Ellis

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Simon Ellis

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0742-379X
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Simon Ellis is a Professor at Macquarie University where he is the head of the Instrument Science Group, which is responsible for research and development in astronomical instrumentation and technologies.  He has over 20 years experience of research in astronomy and astrophysics, including instrumentation research and development, the evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and the astrophysics of positronium.  He has played a leading role in the development of astrophotonics, most notably in the field of OH suppression, and has published the first ever textbook on astrophotonics.  He was the commissioning scientist for the world’s first two instruments to use fibre Bragg gratings for OH suppression.  He has published foundational papers in the use of silicon photonics for astronomy.  He is currently the Lead Instrument Scientist for the Imager and Spectrograph for MAVIS, an adaptive optics fed instrument for the European Southern Observatories Very Large Telescope.

Education/Academic qualification

Astrophysics, PhD, The Evolution of High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies, University of Birmingham

1 Oct 1999 → 30 Jun 2003

Award Date: 12 Dec 2003

External positions

Instrument Science Manager, Australian Astronomical Observatories

Nov 2017 → 30 Jun 2018

Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney

22 Mar 2016 → 22 Mar 2019

Instrument Scientist, Australian Astronomical Observatories

1 Oct 2010 → 1 Nov 2017

Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney

2010 → 2013

Research Fellow, University of Sydney

1 Oct 2008 → 30 Sept 2010

Instrument Scientist, Anglo-Australian Observatory

1 Aug 2006 → 30 Sept 2008

Research Fellow, Anglo-Australian Observatory

1 Aug 2003 → 31 Jul 2006

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  • An optical daytime astronomy pathfinder for the Huntsman Telescope

    Caddy, S. E., Spitler, L. R. & Ellis, S. C., 2024, In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 41, p. 1-16 16 p., e056.

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  • Astrophotonics: recent and future developments

    Ellis, S. C. & Bland-Hawthorn, J., 2024, In: Contemporary Physics. 65, 1, p. 12-39 28 p.

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  • MAVIS: imager and spectrograph

    Ellis, S., Zhelem, R., Horton, A., Chin, T., Fernando, N., Hewlett, M., Lorente, N., Luo, S., McDermid, R., McGregor, H., Robertson, D., Schwab, C., Smedley, S., Waller, L., Zheng, J., Kosmalski, J., Cresci, G., Mendel, T., Bianco, A., Brodrick, D., & 5 othersBurgess, J., Haynes, D., Greggio, D., Content, R. & Rigaut, F., 2024, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X. Bryant, J. J., Motohara, K. & Vernet, J. R. (eds.). Washington: SPIE, p. 1-14 14 p. 130961B. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 13096).

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  • Tunable dual-polarization photonic ring resonator filters for OH-suppressed ground-based astronomy

    Kuehn, K., Kelley, T., Kuhlmann, S., Kehoe, R., Lasker, J., Rajeev, V., Hermann, A. & Ellis, S., 2024, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI. Navarro, R. & Jedamzik, R. (eds.). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, p. 1310069-1-1310069-8 8 p. 1310069. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 13100).

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  • 2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments

    Jovanovic, N., Gatkine, P., Anugu, N., Amezcua-Correa, R., Basu Thakur, R., Beichman, C., Bender, C. F., Berger, J-P., Bigioli, A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourdarot, G., Bradford, C. M., Broeke, R., Bryant, J., Bundy, K., Cheriton, R., Cvetojevic, N., Diab, M., Diddams, S. A., Dinkelaker, A. N., & 60 othersDuis, J., Eikenberry, S., Ellis, S., Endo, A., Figer, D. F., Fitzgerald, M. P., Gris-Sanchez, I., Gross, S., Grossard, L., Guyon, O., Haffert, S. Y., Halverson, S., Harris, R. J., He, J., Herr, T., Hottinger, P., Huby, E., Ireland, M., Jenson-Clem, R., Jewell, J., Jocou, L., Kraus, S., Labadie, L., Lacour, S., Laugier, R., Ławniczuk, K., Lin, J., Leifer, S., Leon-Saval, S., Martin, G., Martinache, F., Martinod, M-A., Mazin, B. A., Minardi, S., Monnier, J. D., Moreira, R., Mourard, D., Nayak, A. S., Norris, B., Obrzud, E., Perraut, K., Reynaud, F., Sallum, S., Schiminovich, D., Schwab, C., Serbayn, E., Soliman, S., Stoll, A., Tang, L., Tuthill, P., Vahala, K., Vasisht, G., Veilleux, S., Walter, A. B., Wollack, E. J., Xin, Y., Yang, Z., Yerolatsitis, S., Zhang, Y. & Zou, C. L., Oct 2023, In: JPhys Photonics. 5, 4, p. 1-126 126 p., 042501.

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