Fourier Space was founded in 2021 by colleagues Matthew Bailes, Adam Deller, Andrew Jameson and Willem van Straten to enable astronomy and space organisations to rapidly solve their signal acquisition and data processing challenges. The team’s skills and software libraries have been honed over decades of experience developing radio astronomy instrumentation for premier telescopes such as the Parkes/Murriyang Observatory and the MeerKAT array. Fourier Space has since grown to employ more staff and continues to expand its areas of expertise and impact around the world.
Directors
Prof Matthew Bailes
Co-founder, Director, Chair of the Board
View bioProf Matthew Bailes
Co-founder, Director, Chair of the Board
World leader in pulsar astronomy science.
Recipient of the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for the discovery of fast radio bursts.
Has a high international profile in radio astronomy science and instrumentation.
Has excellent connections to management in international radio astronomy research and observatory facilities.
A former Director of VPAC Pty Ltd; CRC for Low Carbon Living; and Astronomy Australia Limited.
Prof Virginia Kilborn
Director
Chief Scientist at Swinburne University of Technology, working to further education, research, policy and equity at Swinburne and beyond.
Radio astronomer with research interests including tracing galaxy evolution by studying the neutral hydrogen gas in galaxies.
Enthusiastic educator and undertakes numerous public outreach opportunities in STEM, space and astronomy.
A past President of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Prof Ian Young AO
Director
Former Vice Chancellor at Swinburne University of Technology and Australian National University.
Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
President and CEO of Conviro.
President of CloudCampus and Director of VERNet.
Director of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships.
Management
Prof Adam Deller
Co-founder, Advisor
View bioDr Willem van Straten
Co-founder, Chief Scientist
View bioProf Adam Deller
Co-founder, Advisor
Expert in radio interferometry and a high profile scientist in the fields of pulsars, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and fast radio bursts.
World instrumentation leader in flexible software based correlators for radio astronomy.
Recipient of the Australian Academy of Science’s 2020 Pawsey Medal for Physics.
Originator of the DiFX Software Correlator and coordinator of the DiFX collaboration.
Andrew Jameson
Co-founder, CEO
Software engineer with 15 years of experience designing, building and deploying signal processing systems at radio and optical observatories.
Expert in high speed, low latency processing on GPU-powered HPC systems.
Expertise in systems administration, software development and project management.
Dr Willem van Straten
Co-founder, Chief Scientist
World leader in pulsar astronomy science, polarimetry and digital signal processing for high time resolution observations.
Led the Pulsar Timing Pre-Construction team for the Square Kilometre Array.
Is the primary author and maintainer of the critical pulsar astronomy software package psrchive.
