Bryan Gaensler is an award-winning astronomer and passionate science communicator, who is internationally recognised for his groundbreaking work on dying stars, interstellar magnets and cosmic explosions. A former Young Australian of the Year, NASA Hubble Fellow, Harvard professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Gaensler is currently the Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. He gave the 2001 Australia Day Address to the nation, was awarded the 2011 Pawsey Medal for outstanding research by a physicist aged under 40, and in 2013 was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. His best-selling popular science book "Extreme Cosmos" was published worldwide in 2012, and has subsequently been translated into four other languages.
Experience
2015–present
Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
2011–2014
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
2011–2014
Australian Laureate Fellow, The University of Sydney
2006–2011
Federation Fellow, The University of Sydney
2002–2006
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
2006–2006
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
2001–2002
Clay Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
1998–2001
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
1999
The University of Sydney, PhD in Physics
1995
The University of Sydney, First Class Honours in Physics