Andrew Casey, Ph.D.

Andrew Casey joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Research Scientist in September 2025. His research specializes in stellar astrophysics, and is underpinned by computational data analysis methods and open-source software. Casey’s research uses stellar spectroscopy and novel methods to understand the formation and evolution of stars, exoplanets, and the Milky Way galaxy. He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2014. During his Ph.D. he was awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s Endeavour Award, which he held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2012. Casey also holds a Bachelor of aerospace engineering (with Honors) from Monash University. Casey was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2014 to 2017, where he was appointed as Senior Member at King’s College. Casey returned to Monash University in 2017 as a Research Fellow, then as a recipient of the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2019, where he was ranked in the top 10 across mathematics, physics, chemistry, and earth sciences. Casey was made faculty in 2019, and he holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor at Monash University’s School of Physics and Astronomy.