Alan Duffy is an astronomer at Swinburne University creating baby universes on the nation’s most powerful supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast haloes of invisible dark matter that hold it together. He is a Chief Investigator in SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere, directly searching for this dark matter and is a team member mapping out the dark matter in the universe using galaxies found with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. 

He has spoken to thousands of students in schools and science festivals across Australia. He is a regular on ABC Breakfast News and Ten’s The Project, with nearly 100 TV interviews and over 100 radio appearances in the last two years alone. He is a writer for one of Australia’s most popular science magazines, Cosmos, and has his own column in The Conversation. In 2011 he was named Western Australian Sunday Times’ Top 40 ‘Best and Brightest’, Men’s Style ‘2015 Men of Influence’ and Commbank’s Australian of the Day in 2015.