Monash Mathematician to join renowned physicist Professor Brian Cox on the ABC’s Stargazing Live Series

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Stargazing enthusiasts will be taken on a stunning journey through space with Stargazing Live a show airing on the ABC featuring renowned physicist Professor Brian Cox and a panel of six scientists - including Monash’s very own Dr Alina Donea, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics.

Broadcasting over three nights from Australian National University’s Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) in New South Wales, the series will immerse the audience in a celebration of the night sky, with a focus on features that are best experienced from Australian soil.

Dr Donea, an applied mathematician and an astrophysicist, is also a member of the Monash Centre for Astrophysics.

She is an expert in Helioseismic Holography (a mathematical method which can tell you how loud is the Sun), and can detect solar quakes and other seismic waves  in satellite images from state-of-art instruments.