Prof. Steven Tingay is Director of the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University, Deputy Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, and Director of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) project. Tingay has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in international refereed journals since 1994 and has attracted over $40m of research funding.
His main interests are in radio astronomy, astrophysics and radio astronomy instrumentation. Over the last ten years, Tingay has led the development of software and hardware that has upgraded Australia's suite of radio telescope facilities.
He currently leads the MWA project, a $50m low-frequency radio telescope currently under construction in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia. The MWA is a Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Tingay has been an active contributor to the international SKA project for the last decade.