Acting/Interim Director's Message

Published in the RSAA Lunations
Vol1 Issue35 1–31 December 2022

It's with some trepidation and excitement that I embark on the next few months as Acting & Interim Director of RSAA. I'm definitely excited to get a more complete inside view of the work many of you do, which may have been slightly invisible to me before. I'm also somewhat anxious to see if I can keep all of the balls Matthew had in the air still flying. Please forgive me if I drop one or two!

For those of you who don't know me very well, a bit of introduction: I've been at RSAA since February 2015. Before that I spent 13 years at CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility, where I worked closely with telescope operations and instrumentation - but always in the radio. I'm currently an ARC Laureate Fellow and my research focuses on using the Australian SKA Pathfinder to understand the role of magnetic fields in setting the structure and evolution of atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. 

I'll be making the rounds over the next few weeks getting to know people a bit better but also please drop in to say hello or let me know if I've dropped a ball! 

Naomi McClure-Griffiths