Rate My Professor Arash Bahramian

Dr. Arash Bahramian is a Senior Lecturer at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), affiliated with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at Curtin University in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He obtained his PhD in 2016 from the University of Alberta, where his doctoral thesis, supervised by Craig Heinke, examined the behaviour of low-mass X-ray binaries and their formation in globular clusters. Following his PhD, Bahramian held research positions at the University of Alberta's Department of Physics, contributing to multi-wavelength studies of compact objects before transitioning to his current role at Curtin University.

Bahramian's research focuses on observational astronomy spanning radio, infrared, optical, and X-ray regimes to investigate the population and behaviour of stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars within our Galaxy. His work emphasizes low-mass X-ray binaries in globular clusters, alongside developments in statistical methods for analyzing heteroskedastic time-series data, handling censoring, and applying Bayesian physical-statistical modeling in astronomical contexts. He also advances data science applications, including data-intensive analysis, declarative visualization, and scientific information design. Key publications include 'Stellar Encounter Rate in Galactic Globular Clusters' (Bahramian et al., 2013, ApJ), 'The ultracompact nature of the black hole candidate X-ray binary 47 Tuc X9' (Bahramian et al., 2017, MNRAS), 'A Transitional Millisecond Pulsar Candidate in Terzan 5' (Bahramian et al., 2018, ApJ), 'Chandra/ACIS Catalog of Faint X-Ray Sources in 38 Globular Clusters' (Bahramian et al., 2020, ApJ), and a co-authored study revealing a 21 solar mass black hole in Cygnus X-1 (Miller-Jones et al., 2021, Science). Bahramian supervises PhD students, such as Tyrone Niam O'Doherty, and has secured Australian Research Council Discovery Project funding. He has delivered research colloquia, including at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2023.