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Alumni

We are enormously proud of our alumni and graduates, who have all contributed to the SSTC and cemented its place as a leader in Australian planetary research.

2024. Dr John Fairweather – PhD thesis: Mapping planetary surface ages at ultimate resolution with machine learning: The Moon.

2024. Dr Stuart Buchan – PhD thesis: Pushing the boundaries of spacecraft autonomy: a custom software framework and onboard digital twin.

2024. Dr Fergus Downey – PhD thesis: Progress Towards Controlled Re-entry and Recovery of CubeSats.

2024. Nikita Tcherkashnev – Honours thesis: Evaluation of an impact origin for enigmatic glass from the Mount Manning Range, WA.

2023. Dr Seamus Anderson – PhD thesis: Farm to Table Meteorites: An End to End Exploration of the Solar System’s Past, Present, and Future.

2023. Dr Morgan Cox – PhD thesis: Developing a Better Understanding of the Timing and Spatial Distribution of Meteorite Impacts on the Earth.

2023. Dr Raiza Quintero – PhD thesis: Assessing the Economic Potential of Australian Impact Structures.

2023: Tom Creusot – Honours thesis: Embedding a Star Tracker onto a Microcontroller.

2022. Dr Tanja Neidhart – PhD thesis: Fireballs on Mars and Earth, Impact Process and Seismic Effects.

2022. Dr Nicole Nevill – PhD thesis: Coordinated Analysis of Primordial Components within Primitive Astromaterials: Implications for the Presolar Environment and the Formation of the Protoplanetary Disk.

2022. Dr Andrea Rajšić – PhD thesis: Numerical modelling of small impacts on Mars.

2022. James Bishop – MRes thesis: Microstructural Response of Zircon in High-Porosity Seeberger Sandstone Experimentally Shocked From 2.5 to 17.5 GPa.

2022. Ching Ee (Madelaine) Lim – MRes thesis: An Electron Backscatter Diffraction Study of Archean Impact Spherules from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia.

2022. Izanne Beetge – Honours thesis: Detailed Field Mapping Insights into Mechanisms and Emplacement of Impact Melt in Central Uplifts, Yarrabubba, Western Australia.

2022. Jed Nelson – Honours thesis: Mars subsurface is wet, but how much?

2021. Dr Patrick Shober – PhD thesis: Meteoroid Orbital Analysis: Connecting Meteorites and Asteroids.

2021. Dr Ken Orr  – PhD thesis: Extracting Martian Meteorite Mineral Spectra for Remote Sensing of the Surface Geology of Mars.

2021. Wallace Maillot – Honours thesis: Petrogenesis of impact melts: Barlangi granophyre, Yarrabubba, Western Australia.

2020. Alexander Brennan – Honours thesis: Geological History of Nili Fossae with Emphasis on Using Crater Counting to Date Nakhlite Host Lithologies.

2020. Jacob Cook – Honours thesis: Design of a Miniaturised, Low Power Methane Sensor for use in Surface-Based Trace Gas Detection on Mars.

2019. Dr Trent Jansen-Sturgeon – PhD thesis: Autonomous Triangulation and Dynamic Modelling of Uncooperative Space Objects using a Distributed Network of Remote Sensors.

2019. Dr Hadrien Devillepoix – PhD thesis: Commissioning and First Science Results of the Desert Fireball Network: a Global-Scale Automated Survey for Large Meteoroid Impacts.

2019. Dr Robert Howie – PhD thesis: Augmentation and Optimisation of the Australian Desert Fireball Network to Enable New Planetary Science.

2019. Shereen Roy – Honours thesis: Origin of Microtektites from the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia.

2019. Pierre Tenedero – Honours thesis: Star and Satellite Tracking using IBIS Actuators.

2019. Tyson-Jae Pampling – Honours thesis: Deployable Systems for the Curtin CubeSat Series.

2019. Rohan Mathew – Honours thesis: Development of a CubeSat Star Tracker.

2018. James Bishop – Honours thesis: Microstructural response of zircon in experimentally shock-deformed porous sandstone.

2018. Morgan Cox – Honours thesis: Empirical Calibration of Shock Deformation in Xenotime at the Spider Impact Structure.

2018. Ravi Patel – Honours thesis: Investigating Shock Deformation with Launch-Paired Martian Shergottites: A Comparison of Shock Features and Crystallisation Ages.

2018. Nathaniel Brough – Honour thesis: Low Cost Attitude Determination, Localisation and Control.

2018. Deep Desai – Honours thesis: Development of Deployable Camera System and Space Environment Simulation Chamber.

2018. Fergus Downey – Honours thesis: Design and Implementation of a CubeSat Power System.

2018. Stuart Buchan – Honours thesis: The Implementation of Radiometry in the Desert Fireball Network for the Production of Meteor Light Curves.

2018. Stuart Hahn – Honours thesis: Viability of Video Camera Implementation to the Desert Fireball Network.

2018. Samuel Gibson – Honours thesis: Drone based search and semantic segmentation for geological mapping.

2017. Dr Timmons Erickson – PhD thesis: Deformation microstructures in zircon and monazite: implications for shock, tectonic and geochronological studies.

2017. Dr Lucy Forman – PhD thesis: Impactors and the Impacted: Analytical Techniques to Identify and Understand the Impact Evolution of Extraterrestrial Materials.

2017. Dr Luke Daly – PhD thesis: Understanding Our Protoplanetary Disk by Chemical Analysis of Components in Meteorites.

2017. Zacchary Hoskins – Honours thesis: Visualization of Carbonaceous Chondrite Fabrics by X-ray Computed Tomography.

2017. Frasah White – Honours thesis: A geological investigation of the origins of the Orcus Patera feature, Mars.

2017. Daniel-Cristian Busan – Honours thesis: Extended Dynamic Range for Fireball Photography.

2017. Jonathan Howell – Honours thesis: Real-time image tracking of night time fireballs.

2017. Philip Long – Honours thesis: Accuracy testing and data improvement using crowdsourcing techniques for existing Martian Crater Detection Algorithm.

2017. Christopher Norman – Honours thesis: Automated detection of craters in Martian satellite imagery using neural network techniques and the Google Tensorflow deep learning library.

2017. Liam Fitzpatrick – Honours thesis: Meteorite identification and localisation using drone imagery and machine learning.

2016. Dr Eleanor Sansom – PhD thesis: Tracking Meteoroids in the Atmosphere: Fireball Trajectory Analysis.

2016. Vikash Laler – Honours thesis: GIS mapping of Wolfe Creek crater based on 3D imagery and ground data.

2016. Nicole Nevill – Honours thesis: Trace element chemistry of meteorite components by synchrotron.

2015. Kaitlin Hewson – Honours thesis: Mapping trace element mobility in and around meteorite fusion crust: Implications for atmospheric interaction.