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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, 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 Sep 2010
Instrument Scientist, Anglo-Australian Observatory
1 Aug 2006 → 30 Sep 2008
Research Fellow, Anglo-Australian Observatory
1 Aug 2003 → 31 Jul 2006
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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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Near infrared camera for DAG
Lawrence, J., Bryant, J. J., Ellis, S., Sharp, R. & Moore, A. M.
14/02/19 → 13/07/23
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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Astrophotonics: introduction to the feature issue
Dinkelaker, A. N., Rahman, A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Cantalloube, F., Ellis, S., Feautrier, P., Ireland, M., Labadie, L. & Thomson, R. R., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 38, 7, p. AP1-AP6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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General coupling efficiency for fiber-fed astronomical instruments
Ellis, S. C., Bland-Hawthorn, J. & Leon-Saval, S. G., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 38, 7, p. A64-A74 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Optimizing photonic ring-resonator filters for OH-suppressed near-infrared astronomy
Liu, P., Czaplewski, D. A., Ellis, S., Kehoe, R., Kuehn, K., Spinka, H. M., Stern, N. P., Underwood, D. G. & Kuhlmann, S., 1 May 2021, In: Applied Optics. 60, 13, p. 3865-3873 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Potential of commercial SIN MPW platforms for developing mid/high-resolution integrated photonic spectrographs for astronomy
Gatkine, P., Jovanovic, N., Hopgood, C., Ellis, S., Broeke, R., Ławniczuk, K., Jewell, J., Wallace, J. K. & Mawet, D., 1 Jul 2021, In: Applied Optics. 60, 19, p. D15-D32 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
Seeking celestial positronium with an OH-suppressed diffraction-limited spectrograph
Robertson, G., Ellis, S., Yu, Q., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Betters, C., Roth, M. & Leon-Saval, S., 1 Jul 2021, In: Applied Optics. 60, 19, p. D122-D128 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)