Rate My Professor Jaiden Cook

Dr Jaiden Cook serves as a Visiting/Adjunct researcher at Curtin University in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, with affiliation to the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA). He completed his PhD at Curtin University within the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). His doctoral thesis, titled 'Characterisation of the Prevalence of Radio Frequency Emission from Satellites at SKA-Low Frequencies with SKA-Low Prototype Stations,' investigated radio emissions from satellites using SKA-Low prototype stations. The study identified transmissions in frequencies protected for radio astronomy as well as unexpected frequencies, with detection data publicly released to support future regulatory efforts against interference.

Cook's academic interests center on radio astronomy, including calibration and imaging strategies for low-frequency aperture arrays, foreground mitigation for Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) studies, and radio frequency interference challenges posed by satellite constellations to instruments like the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and Square Kilometre Array (SKA). His key publications include 'A calibration and imaging strategy at 300 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)' (2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia), which addresses grating sidelobes in primary beam patterns; 'Investigating the contribution of extended radio sources to the Epoch of Reionisation power spectrum' (2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society); and 'The impact of ionization morphology and X-ray heating on the Epoch of Reionisation power spectrum' (2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society). Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Astronomy and Space Science at CSIRO.