Rate My Professor Adelle Goodwin

Dr Adelle Goodwin is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, based at the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR-Curtin). She earned her PhD in Astrophysics from Monash University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours) from the same university in 2016. Her research specializes in high energy astrophysics, focusing on black holes and neutron stars. She investigates tidal disruption events where supermassive black holes destroy stars, accreting neutron stars, X-ray bursts, and relativistic jets using Australian and global radio telescopes. Goodwin coordinates international observations of transient astrophysical phenomena to study black hole accretion processes, material ejection, and their environmental impacts.

Following her PhD at Monash University, where she observed an X-ray pulsar powering up through a global telescope network, Goodwin joined ICRAR-Curtin as a postdoctoral researcher in 2021 and advanced to Lecturer. She has received the Superstar of STEM award in 2022 for her work on stars destroyed by black holes and the Forrest Research Fellowship in 2023. Key publications include 'The birth of a relativistic jet following the disruption of a star by a cosmological black hole' (Nature Astronomy, 2023), 'AT2019azh: an unusually long-lived, radio-bright thermal tidal disruption event' (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022), 'The more the merrier: SRG/eROSITA discovers two further galaxies showing X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions' (Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024), 'Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3−203750' (Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023), and 'Thermonuclear burst observations for model comparisons: a reference sample' (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2017). Goodwin contributes to astronomy outreach as a volunteer night sky tour guide at Perth Observatory and advocates for inclusivity in astronomy for minority groups, enhancing collaborative research environments.