I had no idea that CSIRO still had any interest in this.
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The CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics was established to commemorate the scientific contribution of Drs. John Dunlop, Tony Farmer, Gerry Haddad and Don Price who died in a helicopter crash in March 2013. The $3000 travel scholarship is aimed to help post-graduate students visit and/or conduct research in an overseas or interstate institution.

Claire-Elise is a PhD candidate researching “Milky Way dynamics and structure”. This project investigates gaseous filaments within molecular clouds, important structures which precede the dense cores in which star formation begins. The research aims to identify the role that filaments play in accreting matter from the interstellar and circumstellar molecules, and in re-distributing it to individual star forming cores. The early stages of the project examines methods of identifying filaments and star forming cores from molecular line data and the role of magnetic fields in filament formation and dynamics. You can view Claire-Elise’s full profile at: https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/staff/claire-elise-green

The scholarship will help Claire travel to Bonn, Germany to expand her knowledge and research in radio astronomy, specifically star formation, molecular clouds, black holes/active galactic nucleus (AGN) and magnetic fields in space. In Bonn, Claire will be working in the millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy group of the Max-Planck Institute for radio astronomy. The team in Bonn has direct access to the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope. Observing with APEX allows the study of cold dust and gas in the Milky Way and in distant galaxies. The APEX data will be invaluable to her research.