Professor at the University of Western Australia since 2010, leading the Data Intensive Astronomy Program (DIA) of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) to research, design and implement Petabyte scale data flows and high performance scientific computing for the Murchison Wide Field Array (MWA), the Australian SKA Pathfinder and the SKA. During his graduate, post-graduate and post-doctoral appointments, he was involved in the software development and reduction of photometric and astrometric Tycho data from the Hipparcos satellite. He joined ESO in 1997 as an archive specialist and was involved in the final implementation of the archive for ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the ESO Imaging Survey. Between 2002 and 2010, he was employed as ESO's Archive Scientist and led the ALMA archive subsystem development group. Prof. Wicenec is also involved in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). His scientific interests and publications include high precision global astrometry, optical background radiation, stellar photometry, dynamics and evolution of planetary nebulae and observational survey astronomy and the related scheduling and computational concepts.

Head of Data Intensive Astronomy Program at ICRAR

Design, architecture and implementation of the global SKA data layer.

Editor Astronomy & Computing Journal

Murchison Wide Field Array Data Management
Australian SKA Pathfinder Data-intensive science reduction system
SKA Science Data Processor Consortium
The Data Activated Flow Graph Engine (DALiuGE, https://github.com/ICRAR/daliuge)
Rialto, a project in collaboration with CSIRO and support by a 1.66 million dollar grant to combine DALiuGE with the data reduction software for the Australian SKA Pathfinder, ASKAPSoft.
NGAS, the Next Generation Archive System, a project which is supporting the data flows of many of the largest observatories in the world (https://github.com/ICRAR/ngas)

PhD and Masters Student supervision

Efficient data archiving and data flow optimization. High performance persistence systems. Large scale astronomical survey systems. High precision astrometry and photometry and stellar dynamics.

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