Simon Ellingsen Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Ellingsen has had a number of roles at the University of Tasmania. Ellingsen has been involved in running research facilities and associated projects at The University of Tasmania for many years, most recently a Space Infrastructure Fund grant to construct a new satellite tracking antenna at the Greenhill Observatory. Ellingsen was appointed as a lecturer in physics in 2000, promoted to senior lecturer in 2005, to Associate Professor in 2010 and to Professor in 2015. He was Head of Discipline for Physics from 2015 – 2019, becoming Acting Head of School for the School of Natural Sciences in July 2019 and was appointed to the position of Dean of Natural Sciences in November 2020.

Ellingsen has contributed to efforts to locate the Wow! signal with American data analyst, astronomer, and author Robert H. Gray. In 1998 Ellingsen and Gray conducted searches using the 26-meter dish at the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory in Hobart, Tasmania. Gray and Ellingsen made six 14-hour observations where the Big Ear was pointing when it found the Wow! Signal. Gray and Ellingsen published “A Search for Periodic Emissions at the Wow Locale” in the October 2002 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, reporting on searches for the Wow! signal.

Ellingsen attended University of Tasmania, located in Hobart, Tasmania, where he received a Bachelor’s degree (First-class honours) in 1991. He went on to obtain a PhD in 1996, with the thesis “Class II Methanol Masers in Star Formation Regions”