Since 2007, CIRA has delivered world-class 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 radio 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 radio transients, pulsars, accreting black holes, radio galaxies, epoch of reionisation.
CIRA is Curtin University’s link to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR; a joint venture with The University of Western Australia, supported by the State Government of Western Australia). We are an AusSRC (Australian SKA Regional Centre) joint venture partner, and host 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.
CIRA encourages an equitable, diverse, tolerant, and friendly work environment for all staff and students.