WA’s Space Capability – now and into the future.
End of Month Drinks with AROSE- Thursday 29 July
CORE Innovation Hub's End of Month Drinks is back on Thursday 29 July from 4:30pm!
This month we are excited to be joined by Leanne Cunnold, CEO of AROSE (Australian Remote Operations for Space & Earth) and special guests Stuart Buchan, PhD candidate - Curtin University and Dr Sascha Schediwy, Senior Research Fellow - University of Western Australia as they discuss WA’s Space Capability – now and into the future.
This fantastic lineup will discuss :
WA's many innovative Space projects and why the future is strong
An update on Curtin University’s Binar CubeSat that is only weeks away from launch
The exciting Square Kilometre Array project that has researchers like Dr Sascha Schediwy from UWA leading a small international team to construct the SKA telescope’s optical fibre frequency synchronisation system.
AROSE recent award a Moon to Mars Initiative Demonstrator Feasibility grant, administered through the Australian Space Agency and what it means to the organisation
This is an event not to be missed!
Learn more about our speakers
Leanne Cunnold
Leanne has over 25 years’ experience in the technology industry with a proven track record of delivering business expansion and navigating organisational and market challenges in both start-up and complex billion dollar global environments.
Having held senior executive leadership positions with APC and Schneider Electric throughout Asia and the US, Leanne has a diverse mix of experience across commercial operations, product marketing, strategy, M&A, and digital and strategic transformations. These organisations provide energy and automation digital solutions for reliability, efficiency and sustainability across industry and government.
Leanne is passionate about creating new business opportunities and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds to deliver positive change.
Leanne graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) and Bachelor of Arts (Japanese), and recently graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Dr Sascha Schediwy
Astrophotonics group lead, International Space Centre, University of Western Australia.
Sascha’s research career started with an undergraduate project in planetary science at Curtin University analysing NASA Apollo lunar samples. In 2007, he obtained his PhD from UWA, working on the development of the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors, including a six-month research period at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
This was followed by a four-year postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford to work on the development of phased array technologies for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. After returning to Australia, Sascha worked on optical fibre frequency metrology, and this included a three-month research visit to Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace (SYRTE) at Paris Observatory.
In 2014, Sascha started a research group as an independently funded researcher at the UWA node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), where he leads an international team on the development and construction of the SKA telescope’s phase synchronisation system.
Since 2018, he has translated the technologies that he developed for the SKA telescope and combining them with adaptive optics techniques used in cutting-edge optical telescopes, to become a world-leader in the pioneering field of free-space optical frequency transfer.
In 2021, Sascha was named the Australian Space Awards “Academic of the Year” and the winner of the overall "Excellence Award" across all individual award categories.
Stuart Buchan
After graduating with first class honours from mechatronic engineering at Curtin University, Stuart worked as a research engineer for the Desert Fireball Network developing a high time resolution radiometer to improve fireball trajectory modelling. He is now developing guidance, propulsion and control systems for small spacecraft as part of his PhD with Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre.