Below is a complete list my science communication activities. Only recent items are presented on my Speaking & Outreach page.
PDF slides for some of my public presentations are available on my Slides page.
Public Presentations and Outreach
- Beyond Earth: the Case for Space — Perth Dialogue, 2025
- 12 Last Songs — Perth Festival, 2025
- Communicating Science — UWA BPhil Summer Residence, 2025
- True or False: The Science Comedy Gameshow — Fringe World, 2025
- Finding love… and aliens — Scitech After Dark, 2024
- Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition — WA Comedy Week, 2024
- Connecting WA to the Stars — World Space Week at Scitech, 2024
- School visit — Churchlands SHS Breakfast Club, 2024
- Communicating Science — UWA BPhil Summer Residence, 2024
- Australian Institute of Physics WA branch AGM, 2023
- A Guide to Quantum Technology — Quantum West, 2023
- Connecting WA to the Stars — Winthrop Society, 2023
- Connecting WA to the Stars — World Space Week at Scitech, 2023
- Finding love… and aliens Communicating Science — Science Week Anti-Conference, 2023
- Communicating Science — UWA BPhil Summer Residence, 2023
- Solar Systems and Satellites — Joseph Banks Secondary College, 2023
- Stargirls STEM Camp — ICRAR, 2023
- Connecting WA to the Stars— Astrofest, 2022
- How We Use Satellites — ISC Space Boot Camp, 2022
- Testing Einstein to the Limit — UWA Wallal Expedition Centenary, 2022
- Peel Bright Minds — STEM careers panel, 2022
- ASITII21 — Thriving in Space panel
- Connecting WA to the Stars — Raising the Bar, 2021
- Satellite laser communications — HAMFEST WA, 2021
- Connecting WA to the Stars — UWA DVCR Webinar, 2021
- Scitech Science Cafe, 2020
- Space Lasers: seeing clearer — Astronomical Society of WA, 2020
- Pluto: the Oddball — ICRAR COVID-19 livestream, 2020
- Science Meets Parliament summary in Australia Physics, 2020
- Science Meets Parliament, Nov 2019
- Maths & Comp Sci in the Pub, Oct 2019
- Australian Science Communicators Careers Night, 2019
- School visit — Narrabundah College, 2019
- School visit — Garran School Science Fair judge, 2019
- Pint of Science — Big Problems Need Big Lasers, 2019
- Panelist for Quantum Shorts public screening, 2019
- Shortlist judge for Quantum Shorts film festival, 2018
- Physics in the Pub, Oct 2018
- School visit — Narrabundah College, 2018
- Mt Stromlo Public Astronomy Night, Jun 2018
- Stargazing Live World Record Attempt, 2018
- School visit — Churchlands SHS yr 12 physics classes, 2018
- Astrofest, 2018
- School visit — Churchlands SHS Breakfast Club, 2018
- Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy — Future Astronomers Program
- Super Blue Blood Moon astronomy event
- Scitech Space Academy, 2018
- Physics at Fairway Summer School, 2018
- ConocoPhillips Science Experience, 2017
- School visit — Fountain College, 2017
- School visit — John XXIII College, 2017
- A Matter of Time — presented at the Astronomical Group of WA, 2017
- Pluto: the oddball — presented to the UWA SPACE club, 2017
- Pint of Science 2017 Perth – To the Edge of the Universe
- School visit – Perth Modern School Science Club, 2017
- Origami Microscope — outreach session for high school students at ICOB 2017
- Pluto: the oddball — presented at Astrofest 2017
- The History of Radio Astronomy — presented at the Astronomical Society of WA
- Antarctica Flights physics demonstrations — (Twitter, Gizmodo, RiAus)
- ConocoPhillips Science Experience
- From here to the edge of the universe — TEDxUWA, November 2016
- Pluto: the oddball — presented at the Astronomical Society of WA
- Competed in 3-Minute Thesis in 2014, 2015 and 2016, came second in 2014
- Phantastic Physics on Snapchat — weekly segment on UWA’s Snapchat account
- Student Talks in Research, 2016
- Perth Science Festival, 2016
- School visit – Shenton College, 2016
- What is Sound? — video entry to Flame Challenge 2016, voted into the top 25
- Detection of Gravitational Waves, 2016
- UWA International Agents Meeting, 2016
- Pluto: the oddball — presented at the Perth Observatory, 2015
- Parliament house dinner, 2015
- Pluto: last but not least — presented at the Geological Survey of WA, 2015
- Gingin Science Festival, 2015
- Perth Science Festival, 2015
- FameLab 2015 – reached the Australian finals
- School visit – Perth Modern School, 2015
- Student Talks in Research, 2014
- Science Union 3-Minute Thesis competition, 2014
- Space Capsule Exhibit — installed at the Gingin Gravity Discovery Centre
Articles and External Blogs
- Clocks synchronized at the quantum limit
- Connecting Australia to space with laser communications
- Australian installs first space laser optical ground station in the southern hemisphere (ABC News)
- WA developing satellite laser communications station
- The Rocket Competition Launching Australia’s Future
- The kilogram is about to change forever
- Opportunity’s 5,000 sols on Mars
- Pluto is not a planet
- Cleaning up our space junkyard
- 2018 shapes up to be a huge year in physics and astronomy
- The challenger to WRESAT’s crown
- WRESAT: When Australia beat the world to space
- Getting in synch with the SKA
- Gravitational Waves Discovery Reveals a Cosmic Collision of Epic Proportions
- All Eyes on Mars
- NASA’s Curiosity — Roving the Red Planet
- Goodbye Cassini
- Measuring Up
- Classroom Antarctica: teaching physics on a plane on the way to Antarctica
- Postscript SKA Fieldwork report
- Building the World’s Largest Telescope
- New atomic clock for the world’s largest telescope
- Radio Telescope on Track
- ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture
- Research Story on the UWA Faculty of Science Facebook page
Radio and Podcast
- Earth spinning faster, BBC Radio 5 Live
- Earth spinning faster, The Naked Scientists Podcast
- Metrology (ABC Radio Tasmania)
- Primary students see the big picture with Einsteinian physics (The Science Show, ABC RN)
- UWA Alumni Voices: TEDxUWA Thursdays
- Telescope Pilot (Astrophiz)
- Cassini’s Grand Finale (Spirit Radio)
- Optical Metrology and Signal Transmission Stabilisation (Vaguely Accurate)
- Science Lessons in the Sky — ABC radio, RTRFM
- Keeping Clocks Accurate (Naked Scientists)
- Better time benefits industry and research (The Science Show, ABC RN)
Media Releases and Press Articles
- WA researchers lead the way in hi-tech communications
- Laser propagating through air sets stability record
- Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was right
- Moon to Earth: WA to host space communications station
- Synchronisation System Designs Chosen For SKA Telescopes
- ICRAR researchers’ precision on point
- Synchronization System Designs Chosen for SKA Telescopes
- What to do when your atomic clock just isn’t accurate enough
- Australian Researchers Have Developed Ultra-Accurate Synchronisation Tech for Largest Telescope
- West Australian Innovation Could Save SKA Millions
- Stabilizing the transmission of time signals for relativity research
Contributed interviews and quotes
- Earth spinning faster (The Guardian)
- Square Kilometre Array vs interference (ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt)
- SpinLaunch in Western Australia (7News Regional)
- Virgin Obit UK launch failure (Channel News Asia)
- Best moments in space for 2022 (ABC Perth Breakfast)
- Carnarvon dish for deep-space tracking (Channel 7)
- Could this be the tech leap that makes your next smartphone faster and cheaper (South China Morning Post)
- Chinese team syncs clocks over record distance using lasers (Nature News)
- Chinese team says laser test could improve satellite navigation (South China Morning Post)
- Why ‘space tourism’ is the next giant leap for mankind (The West Australian/ The Sunday Times)
- How atomic clocks could probe dark matter mysteries and fundamental physics (ABC News)
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