Astronomy and space communications rely on high-throughput signal processing to discover and analyse signals of interest. Fourier Space formed in 2021 to enable astronomy and space entities to rapidly and efficiently solve their signal acquisition and processing challenges, using skills and software libraries honed over decades of instrumentation development for radio astronomy.
Located in Hawthorn in the inner east of Melbourne, Australia, we support facilities and customers worldwide.
Founders and Management
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.
- Virginia is active in the Australian Astronomical community and is a past President of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Prof. Matthew Bailes
- Co-founder, Director and Chair of Board
- World leader in pulsar astronomy science.
- Recipient of the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy 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.
- Is a former Director of VPAC Pty Ltd, CRC for Low Carbon Living, Astronomy Australia Limited
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 International Centre for Democratic Partnerships.
Prof. Adam Deller
- Co-founder
- 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 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 & project management
Willem van Straten
- Co-founder
- World leader in pulsar astronomy science, polarimetry and digital signal processing for high time resolution observations.
- Has 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.
Development Team
Andrew Jameson
- CUDA/HPC
- High speed signal capture
- Radio astronomy algorithms
Willem van Straten
- CUDA
- Advanced signal processing tools
- Radio astronomy algorithms
Will Gauvin
- Software engineer
- CUDA/HPC
- Python monitoring and control
Jesmigel Cantos
- Software engineer
- Kubernetes / Containerisation
Anthony Griffin
- Software engineer
- CUDA/HPC
- Digital signal conditioning