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Simon Ellis is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. Simon is Manager of the Instrument Science Group at AAO-Macquarie, where he leads the research and development of new instrument concepts and novel technologies for astronomy. He has over 18 years experience working in many areas of astronomical research, from X-ray astronomy to optical astronomy, including observations, theory and modelling. His research interests include clusters of galaxies, galaxy evolution, brown dwarfs, and the astrophysics of antimatter. Simon has 79 total publications, of which 25 are first author and 42 are refereed, with 1794 total citations total, and 212 normalised citations, and an h-index of 25. Additionally, Simon has over a decade of experience in the development of astronomical instrumentation, and was the project scientist for the KOALA IFU on the AAT. He has been involved in several on-telescope demonstrations of new photonic technologies including fibre Bragg gratings and integrated spectrographs. He is actively involved in the development and testing of astrophotonics, including ring resonators, and multicore fibres. Simon is an expert in the field of OH suppression, and was the instrument scientist for the GNOSIS instrument, the first astronomical instrument to use fibre Bragg gratings and photonic lanterns, and he is currently the instrument scientist for the PRAXIS near infrared spectrograph, the successor to GNOSIS.
Education/Academic qualification
Astrophysics, PhD, University of Birmingham
1 Oct 1999 → 30 Jun 2003
External positions
Instrument Science Manager, Australian Astronomical Observatories
Nov 2017 → 30 Jun 2018Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
22 Mar 2016 → 22 Mar 2019Instrument Scientist, Australian Astronomical Observatories
1 Oct 2010 → 1 Nov 2017Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
2010 → 2013Research Fellow, University of Sydney
1 Oct 2008 → 30 Sep 2010Instrument Scientist, Anglo-Australian Observatory
1 Aug 2006 → 30 Sep 2008Research Fellow, Anglo-Australian Observatory
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A tunable laser to extend the scope of applied photonics
Ellis, S., Withford, M., Lawrence, J. & Owers, M.
1/01/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Other
MQAAAstro: Macquarie University Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics Research Centre
De Marco, O., McDermid, R., Casali, M., Wardle, M., de Grijs, R., Hopkins, A., Coutts, D. W., Withford, M., Zucker, D., Spitler, L., Owers, M., Dawson, J., Kotachery, D., Purcell, C., Schwab, C., Sealey, K., O'Toole, S., Lorente, N., Ellis, S., Lopez Sanchez, A. R., De Silva, G., Zafar, T., Ryder, S., Mulligan, J., Feger, T., Choudhury, S. & Lawrence, J.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
A general use, portable, full-range vacuum pumping station with leak detector
Schwab, C., Downes, J., Ellis, S., Mildren, R., Kane, D., Carman, R., Twamley, J., Volz, T., Coutts, D. W. & McDermid, R.
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Other
Research Outputs
First demonstration of OH suppression in a high-efficiency near-infrared spectrograph
Ellis, S. C., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J. S., Horton, A. J., Content, R., Roth, M. M., Pai, N., Zhelem, R., Case, S., Hernandez, E., Leon-Saval, S. G., Haynes, R., Min, S. S., Giannone, D., Madhav, K., Rahman, A., Betters, C., Haynes, D., Couch, W., Kewley, L. J. & 4 others, , Feb 2020, In : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492, 2, p. 2796-2806 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Photonic ring resonator notch filters for astronomical OH line suppression
Liu, P., Kuhlmann, S., Ellis, S. C., Kuehn, K., Spinka, H., Underwood, D., Ocola, L., Gupta, R. R. & Stern, N. P., 3 Jan 2020, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019. Ellis, S. & d'Orgeville, C. (eds.). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2 p. 112030Y. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 11203).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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PRAXIS: an OH suppression optimised near infrared spectrograph
Ellis, S. C., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bauer, S., Case, S., Content, R., Fechner, T., Giannone, D., Haynes, R., Hernandez, E., Horton, A. J., Klauser, U., Lawrence, J. S., Leon-Saval, S. G., Löhmannsröben, H. G., Min, S. S., Pai, N., Roth, M., Waller, L. & Zhelem, R., 6 Jan 2020, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019. Ellis, S. & d'Orgeville, C. (eds.). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2 p. 1120312. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 11203).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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Wide-field dynamic astronomy in the near-infrared with Palomar Gattini-IR and DREAMS
Soon, J., Adams, D., De, K., Galla, A., Hankins, M., Kasliwal, M. M., Moore, A. M., Adams, S. M., Antoszewski, J., Ashley, M., Babul, A. N., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Cooke, J., De Marco, O., Delacroix, A., Devillepoix, H., Ellis, S. C., Freeman, K. C., Hale, D., Heger, A. & 10 others, , 3 Jan 2020, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019. Ellis, S. & d'Orgeville, C. (eds.). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2 p. 1120307. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 11203).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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Astrophotonics: a promising arena for silicon photonics
Ellis, S. C., Leon-Saval, S. G. & Bland-Hawthorn, J., 14 Mar 2019, Silicon Photonics XIV. Reed, G. T. & Knights, A. P. (eds.). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 16 p. 109230M. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 10923).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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