Events

Dr. Margaret Buhariwalla (She/They) recently graduated with their PhD from St. Mary's University in 2025. Her research focuses on hot plasmas associated with actively accreting supermassive black holes. Margaret has a passion for (and several years of experience in) science communication and is particularly interested in sharing the human perspective on space science.

Among the diversity of exoplanets discovered in the last few decades are a particularly intriguing type called lava worlds. In this month's KPL astronomy talk, Dr. Lisa Dang will share how we find these scorching hot rocky planets, and discuss how we can study them and what you could experience if you were to visit a lava world.

Emily Deibert is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, where her research focuses on characterizing the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters and other exoplanets. Prior to starting at Waterloo, Emily was a Gemini Science Fellow and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gemini South Observatory in La Serena, Chile, where she worked as a member of the instrument science team for the observatory's new high-resolution optical spectrograph, GHOST. Emily completed a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and an undergraduate degree in Astronomy, English, and Mathematics, from the University of Toronto's St George campus.