Paul Geil

• Designed a science-themed circus-based program for a not-for-profit organisation for youth of all abilities, helping secure funding from the Department of Education and Training Victoria
• Performed data-intensive research into breast cancer risk at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health to improve accuracy and outcomes in terms of screening protocols
• Built complex simulation suites of new-generation radio telescopes and the early Universe to investigate optimal observing strategies and synergies, helping inform design and resulting in over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles
• Provided advice on improving data communication and visualisation for a Victorian statutory authority
• Contributed a complementary science case as Chief Investigator on an international observing proposal for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Before joining Nous, Paul performed data-intensive research into breast cancer risk at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics and The University of Melbourne, where he modelled large-scale structures in the early universe and optimised strategies to detect them using new-generation technology.

Paul holds a PhD in Astrophysics and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from The University of Melbourne.

Paul is an outdoor enthusiast, relishing zen-like moments in wilderness. When not dangling from a rope halfway up a cliff, he can be found in suspended anticipation of Neal Stephenson’s next novel.