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Simon Ellis is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University where he is the head of the Instrument Science Group, which is responsible for research and development in astronomical instrumentation and technologies.  He has over 20 years experience of research in astronomy and astrophysics, including instrumentation research and development, the evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and the astrophysics of positronium.  He has played a leading role in the development of astrophotonics, most notably in the field of OH suppression.  He was the commissioning scientist for the world’s first two instruments to use fibre Bragg gratings for OH suppression.  He has published foundational papers in the use of silicon photonics for astronomy.  He is currently the Lead Instrument Scientist for the Imager and Spectrograph for MAVIS, an adaptive optics fed instrument for the European Southern Observatories Very Large Telescope.