Dr Amy E Kimball
Email: kimball [.dot.] amy [.dot.] e [@at@] gmail [.dot.] com

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Mailing address:
CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science
PO Box 76
Epping, NSW 1710 Australia

Office: CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science
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Marsfield, NSW Australia
Phone: +61 2 9372 4670

I am an astronomer living in Sydney, Australia, studying super-massive black holes in other galaxies. These compact, high-energy sources also known as quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) or quasars. I am particularly interested in learning why some of these objects have strong radio jets while others do not, and how radio emission is related to the properties and environment of their host galaxies. I like working with data from multi-wavelength sky surveys (particularly radio, optical, and infrared) to help answer these questions, by studying quasar populations statistically using large numbers of sources.

Currently, I am an Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) postdoctoral fellow in the CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science division (CASS), which runs the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Besides pursuing my quasar research, I am a support astronomer for the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and I am also a member of the Commissioning and Early Science Team for the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope in Western Australia.

Before moving to Sydney, I was a postdoctoral fellow with the North American ALMA Science Center at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I supported users of the ALMA telescope in addition to conducting my own scientific research on quasar populations.

I completed my PhD in Astronomy in 2010 at the University of Washington under the guidance of Dr Željko Ivezić.