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Professor Danail Obreschkow is a Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia and Director of the International Space Centre. He holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Born and raised in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, he graduated in theoretical physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He obtained his PhD in extragalactic astrophysics from the University of Oxford in 2009. After two years in private industry, he joined ICRAR/UWA as a faculty member in 2011.
His primary research focuses on extragalactic astrophysics with an emphasis on the evolution of galaxies, pursued through computational and observational methods. He also conducts experimental research in microgravity and has served as a mission specialist on 354 parabolic flight manoeuvres aboard the Airbus Zero-G with the European Space Agency. Professor Obreschkow is fluent in English, German (Swiss), and French.
Explore UWA's historic zero gravity flight team, Australia's first in microgravity research, boosting higher education and space innovation.
Explore Australia's inaugural zero-gravity parabolic flight campaign led by UWA, advancing microgravity experiments for space resource utilization and higher education innovation.
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