Dr Torrance Hodgson
Torrance completed a PhD in Physics, specialising in astrophysics and radio astronomy. His PhD at Curtin University was on the search for the ‘synchrotron cosmic web’, an extremely faint radio signature in space that traces the very largest scale structures of the Universe. This involved both novel simulation work, as well as low-frequency observations of the radio sky with Square Kilometre Array precursor telescopes. He also holds a Master of Sociology from Victoria University.
Torrance joined the CIDS in September 2021 as a senior data scientist. His work is a joint project between Curtin and the Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness to optimise the high computational demands of radio astronomy imaging processes for the next generation of supercomputing, specifically in preparation for the SKA and its precursor telescopes.
In November 2022, Torrance joined the ASDAF team to work on the Space Situational Awareness project.
His key competencies and research interests include:
• Interferometric Imaging Algorithms
• Deconvolution Techniques
• HPC Workflows, Optimisation, and Parallel Computing