Current students

Prof. August E. (Gus) Evrard is a first generation computational cosmologist and educational innovator at the University of Michigan. Author of the first computational algorithm to enable multi-fluid cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, Prof. Evrard's astrophysical research aims to understand clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe.  

Simone Paradiso is a postdoc at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at University of Waterloo. Originally from Rome, in 2016 he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Astrophysics. He completed his PhD in Physics and Astrophysics in 2021 at University of Milan.

Arthur is currently a research fellow at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (and about to move to The Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm in March). He graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with a master's from the University of Sao Paulo and a PhD from University College London in 2019.

Lauren Foster

Lauren Foster is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Physics and Astronomy program at Waterloo. She started working with Dr. Percival in May 2021 on a project exploring the use of machine learning to identify dark matter halos in redshift-space.

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Professor Laura Fissel is an astrophysicist in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen's University.  Her research focuses on building stratospheric balloon-borne telescopes, which operate above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, allowing astronomers to observe radiation that would otherwise require a much more expensive space telescope.

Dr. Andrew Pontzen is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cosmology at the University College London (UCL). He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge in 2009.  His work focuses on understanding dark matter – a mysterious component of the universe that is hypothesised to drive the formation of galaxies and other structures.

Michael R. Meyer is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.  He was Chair of Star and Planet Formation at the ETH in Zürich and was formerly a Professor/Astronomer at the Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona.  He was a Hubble Fellow at the University of Arizona and did a post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomie.

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