Seminar

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.

Dr. Angelo Ricarte is a theoretical astrophysicist and Black Hole Initiative (BHI) fellow at the BHI at Harvard University.  He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley in 2013 before completing a Ph.D.

Jiamin is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow hosted by the University of Florida and the Max-Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial physics. She is interested in cosmology and applying summary statistics to the large-scale structure to understand the early Universe as well as fundamental laws of physics.

Yashar Akrami is an Assistant Research Professor (Ramón y Cajal Fellow) of Theoretical Physics (Cosmology) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC in Madrid, Spain. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Kristen Dage is currently a FRQNT postdoctoral fellow at McGill University where she uses multiwavelength observations to identify objects in extreme gravitational environments and characterise their physics. Kristen got her PhD in astrophysics in July 2020 from Michigan State University, and her Bachelor of Science in physics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2014.

Marta Reina-Campos is a CITA National Fellow at McMaster University working on connecting star clusters to galaxies with Dr. Sills. Previously, she completed her PhD in 2020 in Dr. Kruijssen’s group at Heidelberg University. 

Natalia Porqueres is a Beecroft fellow at Oxford University, working on cosmology. Her work focuses on understanding the large-scale structures of the Universe. For that, Natalia developed statistical and data analysis tools to optimally extract the information from the observations and make full use of the data.

Josh Speagle is an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics in the Department of Statistical Sciences and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on using a collection of astronomy, statistics, and data science to try and understand how galaxies like the Milky Way form, behave, and evolve.

David is a Blavatnik and Rothchild fellow at the University of Cambridge, testing theories of gravity with diverse methods. My main research recently is focused on Binary motion of stars (pulsars, Gravitational waves, Gaia...) and Binary galaxies to test dark energy and modified gravity.