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Dr James Biggs
Government Astronomer for Western Australia / Director

and
Adjunct Associate Professor at
Curtin University of Technology, and,
James Cook University

Qualifications

BSc (hons, UWA), PhD (Sydney)

Previous Appointments

• Associate Lecturer, Curtin University of Technology, WA, 1993 - 1994.

• Astronomer (for Hubble Space Telescope), NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, 1990 - 1992.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory, UK, 1987 - 1990.

• Temporary Lecturer, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW, 1986.

Current Research Interests

• asteroid, comet and transient source detection, monitoring, imaging and photometry

• Radio pulsars

• Signal processing

• Astronomy education and outreach, public conceptions of astronomy

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Government Astronomer Dr James Biggs

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Professional Affiliations

• Elected Member of the Astronomical Society of Australia Council, 2000-2003

• Member of the International Astronomical Union from 1997

• Member of the Australian Committee for Astronomy (a committee of the National Academy of Science), 1997-2003

• Elected Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 1996

• Member of the American Astronomical Society from 1991

• Elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, 1988

• Member of the Astronomical Society of Australia from 1980

Publications

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