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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Dr. Marcus Lower | Astrophysicist</title>
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</head>
<body>
<!-- TOP NAV -->
<nav>
<a href="index.html" class="nav-brand">Marcus Lower</a>
<div class="nav-right">
<div class="nav-links">
<a href="index.html" class="active" onclick="return showPage('about',this)">About</a>
<a href="research.html" onclick="return showPage('research',this)">My Research</a>
<a href="collaborations.html" onclick="return showPage('collaborations',this)">Collaborations</a>
<a href="publications.html" onclick="return showPage('publications',this)">Publications</a>
<a href="software.html" onclick="return showPage('software',this)">Software</a>
<a href="talks.html" onclick="return showPage('talks',this)">Talks</a>
<a href="group.html" onclick="return showPage('group',this)">Group</a>
<a href="cv.html" onclick="return showPage('cv',this)">CV</a>
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<span class="etag">Pulsars</span>
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<p>I am an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the <a href="https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/centres-groups-clinics/centre-for-astrophysics-supercomputing/">Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing</a> at Swinburne University of Technology. My research sits at the intersection of observational and statistical astrophysics, with a current focus on investigating the links between highly magnetised neutron stars and the mysterious fast radio burst phenomenon.</p>
<p>I combine Bayesian inference techniques with data from radio telescopes — primarily <a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/ATNF/Parkes-radio-telescope-Murriyang">Parkes/Murriyang</a> and <a href="https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/meerkat/">MeerKAT</a> — to study two kinds of rotating neutron stars known as pulsars and magnetars. These objects emit beams of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles which our telescopes detect as periodic trains of highly polarised radio pulses. I lead the Parkes 'P574' and 'P885' long-term projects, which respectively monitor 270 slow-spinning pulsars and four extremely rare radio-loud magnetars. These projects seek to understand how pulsars and magnetars evolve over their lifetimes, be used as tools to map our Galaxy and test fundamental physics under extreme conditions.</p>
<p>Previously, I was a CERC postdoctoral fellow at the Australia Telescope National Facility based out of the CSIRO Marsfield site (2021-2024). I completed my PhD in 2022 at Swinburne University of Technology/CSIRO Space and Astronomy under <a href="https://experts.swinburne.edu.au/231-matthew-bailes">Prof. Matthew Bailes</a>, <a href="https://experts.swinburne.edu.au/3635-ryan-shannon">Prof. Ryan Shannon</a> and <a href="https://people.csiro.au/J/S/Simon-Johnston">Dr. Simon Johnston</a>.
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<div class="news-item"><span class="news-date">May 2026</span> Contributed talk at the 2026 Orange Pulsar Workshop, Marsfield, Sydney.</div>
<div class="news-item"><span class="news-date">Apr 2026</span> Final ATUC meeting as a committee member for three years, Kensington, Perth.</div>
<div class="news-item"><span class="news-date">Mar 2026</span> "Transient narrowband radio bursts from 1E 1547.0-5408" submitted to Nature Astronomy.</div>
<div class="news-item"><span class="news-date">Feb 2026</span> Contributed talk at the ATNF Futures workshop, Marsfield, Sydney.</div>
<div class="news-item"><span class="news-date">Nov 2025</span> Delivered a colloquium at the Australian National University, Canberra.</div>
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