Our 2025 BOK Lecture is Christian Wolf
Christian Wolf is Associate Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University and future Director of the Siding Spring Observatory (SSO). He works mostly on hungry black holes, but has worked in the past on the evolution of galaxies such as the Milky Way. He led the SkyMapper Southern Survey, which created a detailed atlas of the Southern night sky from 7 years of observations at SSO. With his team, he discovered the fastest-growing black hole in the Universe in 2018 and then broke their own record in 2023. Christian spent part of his childhood in Sardinia, where he found his love for the night sky. He studied in the US and Germany and in 1999 obtained his PhD from the Max-Planck Institute of Astronomy in Heidelberg. After a decade at Oxford University, he joined the ANU in 2013.
Our 2025 Science in the Pub Guest's
Matthew Dodds
Matt Dodds is an Amateur Astronomer and the Education Officer for the Sydney University node of ASTRO 3D. He has a keen passion for Astronomy and Science Education and connecting people with the night sky. Having spent the better part of the last decade as a High School Science Teacher, Matt excels at inspiring students to follow their passions, ask questions and pursue their goals in Science related fields. Matt can often be found travelling around the country, sharing the eyepiece of his telescopes with school groups or the general public. He also presents various workshops to teacher and student groups such as the basics of spectroscopy, the scale of the solar system and how to build a telescope. One his long drives around Australia he loves listening to Astronomy podcasts such as "Space Nuts", "Cosmic Vertigo" and the "Exocast". He on both Instagram and Twitter @ScienceWithMat.
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