Since 2007, CIRA has delivered world-class excellence in research and innovation in astrophysics, engineering, and computer science. CIRA trains the next generation of radio-astronomers and engineers, who will deliver high impact research using the most powerful telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Our Science team conducts research with data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, and other telescopes around the world, in areas such as Extragalactic Science, Accretion Physics and Slow Transients, the Epoch of Reionisation, and Pulsars / Fast Transients.
CIRA is Curtin University’s link to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR; a joint venture with The University of Western Australia, funded by the State Government of Western Australia). We are an AusSRC (Australian SKA Regional Centre) joint venture partner, and employ the AusSRC Principal Scientist.
CIRA translates radio astronomy technologies, techniques, concepts, and knowledge, into other domains, including Space Situational Awareness and Planetary Defence, Satellite Communications, and Directed Energy Effects.