David HOLDSWORTH

Accomplished scientific leader with a proven track record of leading and mentoring high-performing teams to achieve exceptional results.

• Co-author of the book chapter "Ionospheric Effects on HF Propagation" in "Advances in Ionospheric Research: Current Understanding and Challenges," Wiley/AGU, December 2021
• Co-author of 52 papers (20 as lead author) published in refereed journal publications, including Radio Science, Advances in Space Research, Annales Geophysicae, Earth, Planets, Space, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
• Co-author of five invited papers at international conferences
• Co-author of 127 (55 as lead author) presentations made at national and international conferences, symposiums, and workshops
• Co-author of 16 (8 as lead author) refereed conference papers
• The full publication record available upon request

• Organizing committee, Progress in Radar Research, University of Adelaide, 11/2025
• Organizing committee, IEEE International Conference on Radar, Sydney, 11/06/23 - 11/10/23
• Session co-convenor, Innovative Radar Systems, IEEE International Conference on Radar, 11/06/23 - 11/10/23
• Technical Committee, Progress in Radar Research, University of Adelaide, 02/2022
• Session co-organizer, MF and meteor radars, PIERS, 03/22/99 - 03/26/99
• Steering committee member, Workshop on Scientific and Technical aspects of MST/ST Radar, 2003
• Journal and conference article refereeing, 2000 - 2025

• Co-investigator, Australian Research Council Grant 20006300, Supply of a broadband radar system, 2000
• Co-investigator, Antarctic Science Project Grant Project No. 2529, Supply of transmitting antennas for mesospheric momentum flux measurements, 2004
• Provision of advice/assistance in the development of two successful US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grants, Grant No. FA2386-22-1-4008, “Generation of Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances from Tropospheric Weather Events, led by Dr Sujata Kovalam, University of Adelaide, and Grant No: FA2386-22-1-4003 “Advanced regional and global numerical modelling of the ionosphere to support SSA, HF radar and communication, and rocket launch monitoring” led by Dr George Bowden, University of NSW-Canberra.

• Dr Sylvie Perreau, Chief, Sensors and Effector Division, Defence Science & Technology Group (DSTG), sylvie.perreau@defence.gov.au
• Professor Jorge Chau, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Rostock University, Kühlungsborn, Germany, chau@iap-kborn.org
• Dr Scott Coutts, Senior Staff Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, scott.coutts@ll.mit.edu

[1]  D. A. Holdsworth and I. M. Reid, Ionospheric vertical TEC measurements using radar observations of Starlink satellites, submitted to URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference, August 2025

[2]  D. A. Holdsworth, A. J. Spargo, I. M. Reid, C. L. Adami, “Space Domain Awareness Observations Using the Buckland Park VHF Radar.”. Remote Sensing, 16(7), 1252, 2024

[3] J. R. Jonker, M. A. Cervera, T. J. Harris, D. A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, D. Neudegg, I. M. Reid, “Observational evidence of EMIC waves propagating in the mid-latitude ionospheric waveguide using ground-based HF and VHF radar”, submitted to Advances in Space Research, 2023

[4] D. A. Holdsworth, K. Mulder, M. D. Turley, “Jindalee operational radar network: New growth from old roots”, In 2022 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf22) (pp. 1-6), IEEE, 2022. 5 citations

[5] M. A. Cervera, T. J. Harris, D. A. Holdsworth and D. J. Netherway, “Ionospheric effects on HF propagation”, in “Advances in Ionospheric Research: Current Understanding and Challenges”, Wiley/AGU, December 2021. 6 citations

[6] R. S. Gardiner-Garden, M. Cervera, R. Debnam, T. Harris, A. Heitmann, D. A. Holdsworth, D. Netherway et al. "A description of the Elevation sensitive Oblique Incidence Sounder Experiment (ELOISE)." Advances in Space Research, 2019. 4 citations

[7] D. A. Holdsworth, "Skywave over-the-horizon radar track registration using earth surface and infrastructure backscatter." In 2017 IEEE Radar Conference, pp. 0986-0991. IEEE, 2017. 10 citations

[8] M.D.E. Turley, R.S. Gardiner-Garden and D. A. Holdsworth, “High Resolution wide area remote sensing for HF radar track registration”, International Conference on Radar, 2013. 16 citations

[9] D. A. Holdsworth, “An over-the-horizon radar performance assessment module for use in cognitive radar”, IET International Conference on Radar Systems, 2012. 7 citations

[10] R. J. Morris, A. R. Klekociuk and D. A. Holdsworth, “First observations of Southern Hemisphere polar mesosphere winter echoes including conjugate occurrences at 69°S latitude”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L03811, doi:10.1029/2010GL046298 .20 citations

[11] D. A. Holdsworth, I. M. Reid and M. A. Cervera, “The Buckland Park all-sky interferometric meteor radar”, Radio Science 39, RS5009, doi:10.1029/2003RS003014.2004, 2004. 197 citations

[12] D. A. Holdsworth and I. M. Reid, “A simple model of atmospheric radar backscatter: Description and application to the full correlation analysis of spaced antenna data”, Radio Sci., 30(4), 1263-1280, 1995: 104 citations.

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