Bradley will be supporting SKA precursor science development in the lead up to SKA early science, leveraging his organisational, technical and project management skills to deliver high-impact results. 

“I’m excited to support scientists across Australia to do the best science they can with SKA precursors, bringing to bear my own skills along with the breadth of AusSRC resources and capabilities.” 

Bradley is a leading figure in the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) flagship pulsar survey – the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) survey – which will act as a reference data set and catalogue for the eventual SKA-Low pulsar survey projects. To date, SMART has already discovered several exciting new objects with more on the horizon as processing ramps up. Bradley continues to develop, maintain and troubleshoot the MWA’s high-time resolution processing software on various computing clusters and supercomputers.

Previously, Bradley’s science was focussed on using radio telescopes across the world to find new pulsars. Bradley was an early developer and adopter of the MWA high-time resolution capabilities, and leveraged the SKA-Low precursor to study pulsars and other fast transients.

Bradley has also worked abroad, applying his technical and organisational skills to pulsar timing and searching projects at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope in British Columbia, Canada. There, he spear-headed the initial combination of CHIME/Pulsar data into the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array experiment. Bradley is one of the founding members and developers of the novel CHIME All-sky Multiday Pulsar Stacking Search (CHAMPSS) project, which has found many new pulsars and will become one of the most sensitive pulsar surveys ever undertaken.