Dr. Bärbel Silvia Koribalski is a research scientist working on galaxy formation at CSIRO's

Australia Telescope National Facility The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)'s radio astronomy observatories are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), with the facility supporting Australia's research in radio astrono ...

(ATNF), part of

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

's Astronomy & Space Science (CASS). She obtained her PhD at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

in Germany and is noted for studies of nearby

galaxies A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar Sys ...

. In 2011 she received

's Newton Turner Award. She is also a project leader of the

ASKAP The ASKAP radio telescope is a radio telescope array located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The facility began as a technology demonstrator for the ...

HI All-Sky Survey, known as

WALLABY A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized Macropodidae, macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same Taxonomy (biology), taxon ...

Research

Galaxy formation and evolution. Gas kinematics of galaxies using the HI 21-cm spectral line of neutral hydrogen. Radio observations with the

Australia Telescope Compact Array The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) is a radio telescope operated by CSIRO at the Paul Wild Observatory, twenty five kilometres (16 mi) west of the town of Narrabri in New South Wales, Australia. Its opening ceremony took place on ...

(ATCA), also known as the

Paul Wild Observatory The Paul Wild Observatory, also known as the Narrabri Observatory and Culgoora Observatory, is an astronomical research facility located about 24 km west of Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home of the Australia Telescope Compa ...

in Narrabri, named after John Paul Wild, Chief of CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics and later Chairman of CSIRO (1978-1985). Study of galaxy groups, e.g. Dorado Group with V.A. Kilborn et al. Current and planned major HI surveys of galaxies: * "HI

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All Sky Survey" ( HIPASS) * "Local Volume HI Survey" (LVHIS), conducted with the

(ATCA) in Narrabri - Principal Investigator * "

HI All-Sky Survey" (known as WALLABY) - Principal Investigator * HI surveys with the

Square Kilometre Array The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an intergovernmental organisation, intergovernmental international radio telescope project being built in Australia (low-frequency) and South Africa (mid-frequency). The combining infrastructure, the Square ...

(SKA)

Personal background

Born in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

, Germany, and grown up in

Köln Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

on the

Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...

, studied physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet Bonn.
Hobbies:

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Career

Physics Diploma (1990) and PhD (

Otto Hahn Medal The Otto Hahn Medal () is awarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers in both the natural and social sciences. The award takes its name from the German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Otto Hahn, who served as the first ...

, 1993) - University of Bonn, Germany
Newton Turner
Award 2011 * CSIRO - OCE Science Leader, from 2012

Professional associations

* International Astronomical Union (IAU) * Australian Society of Astronomy (ASA)

Publications

Dr. Bärbel Koribalski's publications
- source SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

References

External links

Dr. Bärbel Koribalski's homepageGoogle ScholarOCE Science Leader Dr. Bärbel Koribalski

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koribalski, Barbel Australian astrophysicists Radio astronomers 20th-century German astronomers 21st-century Australian astronomers University of Bonn alumni Living people 1964 births German emigrants to Australia