Contact me

Email

You can email me at andrew.casey@monash.edu. My office and mobile phone numbers are listed in my email signature. So if we have had some correspondence, you can probably find my phone numbers in your email inbox.

I usually don’t respond to emails on weekends or outside of working hours. My normal working day starts early (between 4am and 6am is not uncommon) and ends when I have family commitments, or when I get tired. I try to achieve Inbox Zero on fridays, but it doesn’t always work.

Schedule a meeting

You don’t need to email me to schedule a meeting. Just send a Google Calendar invite to andrew.casey@monash.edu. That calendar is publicly available and is usually the best reflection of my availability. A view of that calendar is embedded below on this page.

A few things to note:

  1. I schedule all my commitments in as few days as possible, with no breaks between meetings.

  2. If I have 32 hours of meetings per week then having them scheduled in 3 days gives me 2 days of uninterrupted research time, which is critical to my productivity.

  3. When selecting a mutually convenient time, try to select a time that is immediately before or after meetings already scheduled in my calendar. This strongly increases the likelihood of me accepting the invitation!

  4. Don’t worry about leaving me a ’lunch break’. Schedule the meeting back-to-back with other meetings. I will solve my caloric scheduling.

  5. Don’t default to an hour-long meeting unless you really think it’s necessary. Think about how much time you actually need.

  6. In Google Calendar, navigate to Settings > Event settings and set the Default guest permissions to ‘Modify event’. That means I can move the meeting time in both of our calendars. Without this I have to decline the event and create a new one with all your original notes and location information.

I follow these rules to maintain my own productivity and to ensure that you have my full attention when you’re meeting with me.

 

Locations

The default place I schedule meetings is my office.

Monash University 

134, 10 College Walk
School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800

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See the Monash University Clayton campus map (PDF) for more details.

Digital locations

You can also find me on the following platforms:

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