Andy Casey

Associate Investigator

Monash University

Biography

I'm an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow at Monash University, in the School of Physics and Astronomy. My current research in astrophysics focusses on stars that should not exist. Astrophysics can explain the properties of 99% of stars in the universe. However, around 1% of stars cannot be explained given our current understanding of how stars form or how chemical elements are created. The very existence of these stars represents some of the most significant gaps in our knowledge of stellar astrophysics. I'm searching large astrophysics databases to find enough of these kinds of stars so that I can ultimately explain their origin. I also work on projects with a focus on applied machine learning, that are unrelated to physics.