Senior Lecturer/ASTRO-3D fellow
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
I acknowedge and pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Elders and peoples of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work.
Senior Lecturer/ASTRO-3D fellow
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
I acknowedge and pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Elders and peoples of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work.
publications
Most up to date publication list can be found here.
cv
Detailed CV can be found here
positions
2020 -- : Senior Lecturer/ASTRO-3D fellow
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
2019 -- : Assistant Adjunt Professor
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of California, Santa Cruz
2018 -- 2020: Assistant Professor
DARK Cosmology Center/Niels Bohr Institute
Københavns Universitet
2015 -- 2018: CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
The Ohio State University
education
2012 -- 2015: Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Monash University
2011 -- 2012: M.Sc., Physics, University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
2007 -- 2010: B.Sc (Hons)., Physics and Mathematics, Monash University
about
I am currently a Senior Lecturer/ASTRO-3D fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. Before this, I was an Assistant Professor at DARK which is apart of the University of Copenhagen and a CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ohio State University.
My research focuses on understanding the physical processes and observational signatures related to the extreme death of stars, and how these processes influence, and are influenced by their surrounding environment. In particular, I use spaced- and ground- based instruments to study tidal disruption events, black holes, supernovae, and their diffuse and compact objects.
I earned my Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from Monash University in 2015 studying the high energy emission from supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae. During my Ph.D. I was a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Predoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I received my Masters of Science from University of Waterloo in 2012, where I was also a Perimeter Scholars International student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. I received a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from Monash University in 2010.
I am from Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
contact
Email: katie[dot]auchettl[at]unimelb[dot]edu[dot]au
Twitter: @ka_am_au
Address: The University of Melbourne, Swanston St & Tin Alley, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia