How Carl Sagan and Neutron Stars won Prof Matthew Bailes for Astrophysics

Professor Matthew Bailes is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) and former Director of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He leads "The Dynamic Universe" theme in the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, CAASTRO.

Prof Bailes's first love are binary and millisecond pulsars, how they are born, how they evolve, and the exciting experiments one can do with them, particularly in the area of general relativity. He also designs computer systems for pulsar processing, eVLBI and radio astronomy.

Find out more about "The Dynamic Universe" and other research themes within CAASTRO:

http://www.caastro.org
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Video production: Dr Wiebke Ebeling, CAASTRO Education & Outreach Coordinator