Prof Bryan Gaensler is an astronomer, working as Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. In addition, he is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Astronomy in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Toronto, and is the co-chair for the Toronto Initiative for Diversity and Excellence (TIDE).

Before becoming Dunlap Institute director in January 2015, Gaensler was the founding director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO). He was also an Australian Laureate Fellow at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the School of Physics at The University of Sydney. He has held research positions at MIT, the Smithsonian and Harvard, and did his postgraduate work at the University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility. In 1999, he was named Young Australian of the Year.

In addition to his research, Gaensler has made significant contributions to building long-term research capacity for observational astronomy. He has been deeply involved in the development and planning of the Square Kilometre Array which, when completed in twin locations in South Africa and Australia, will be the largest radio telescope ever built.

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