Dr Chenoa Tremblay

Breakthrough Listen Visiting Scholar

Chenoa Tremblay is a radio astronomer at the SETI Institute working on the new Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometric Cluster (COSMIC) for the VLA which is designed to complete an all-sky search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Prior to this role, Chenoa worked at the CSIRO, the Australian national science agency, and has over 20 years of experience working in industry research and development in the field of analytical chemistry.

She received her PhD at Curtin University in Western Australia in 2018 and has been involved with building and commissioning a number of low-frequency radio telescopes including the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP).

Chenoa is the current board-appointed chair of the MWA Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy science group, a Project Scientist for the Galactic ASKAP survey in Hydroxyl, the Chair of the ISM Science Review Panel for the NRAO/GBO, and a Principle Investigator on a number of SETI programs with the Parkes, VLA, VLBA, ATA, MWA and ASKAP telescopes.