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Simon Ellis is an Associate Professor 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 20 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, 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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Projects
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Gemini North Adaptive Optics Bench Phase A Study
Lawrence, J., Rigaut, F., Fusco, T., Neichel, B., Charton, J., Case, S., Ellis, S., Vedrenne , N., Bruno , P., Sauvage , J., Fetick , R., Correia , C., Farrell, T., McGregor, H., Zheng, J., Waller, L., Cetre , S., Laslandes , M. & Schimpf , A.
22/07/22 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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MQRIS S 2022: A broad-band light source for the development of world-leading astronomical instruments
Ellis, S., Lawrence, J., Zafar, T., Zheng, J., Schwab, C., Owers, M., Kotachery, D., Zucker, D. & Gross, S.
1/01/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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MQRIS L 2022: High-precision 3D laser-tracker
Lawrence, J., Ellis, S., McGregor, H., Zheng, J., Robertson, D., Schwab, C. & Power, R.
1/01/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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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
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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
Research Outputs
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Principles of astrophotonics
Ellis, S., Bland-Hawthorn, J. & Leon-Saval, S., 2023, London: World Scientific Publishing. 260 p. (Advanced Textbooks In Physics)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Advancing photonic technologies for ground-based infrared astronomy
Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kehoe, R. & Ellis, S., 2022, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation V. Navarro, R. & Geyl, R. (eds.). Washington, DC: SPIE, p. 1-8 8 p. 121885L. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 12188).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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MAVIS: imager and spectrograph
Ellis, S., Horton, A., Schwab, C., Chin, T., Content, R., Fernando, N., Lorente, N., McDermid, R., Mohanan, M., McGregor, H., Pember, J., Robertson, D., Smedley, S., Saunders, W., Waller, L., Zhelem, R., Zheng, J., Kosmalski, J., Cresci, G., Mendel, T., & 7 others , 2022, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX. Evans, C. J., Bryant, J. J. & Motohara, K. (eds.). Washington, DC: SPIE, p. 1-13 13 p. 1218409. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 12184).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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MAVIS: an optical design for the image slicer and spectrograph
Saunders, W., Chin, T., Schwab, C., Ellis, S., Content, R., Pember, J., Zhelem, R., Zheng, J., Smedley, S., Robertson, D., Greggio, D., Rigaut, F. & McDermid, R. M., 2022, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX. Evans, C. J., Bryant, J. J. & Motohara, K. (eds.). Washington, DC: SPIE, p. 1-9 9 p. 1218444. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 12184).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Towards a data-driven model of the sky from Low Earth Orbit as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Caddy, S. E., Spitler, L. R. & Ellis, S. C., Aug 2022, In: The Astronomical journal. 164, 2, p. 1-15 15 p., 52.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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