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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.
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.
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.
Ingrid Stairs obtained her B.Sc. from McGill University and her Ph.D from Princeton studying pulsars, then did postdoctoral work at Jodrell Bank and Green Bank before joining the faculty at UBC. She was promoted to Full Professor there in 2012, and has won the CASCA Peter G. Martin Award for Mid-Career Achievement and the Rutherford Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada.
Aaron Vincent: "I am a theoretical astroparticle physicist and member of the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, as well as the Queen's Astronomy Research Group, in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen's University.
Serena Perrotta is an Assistant Project Scientist at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Astrophysics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy) in 2016.
Ananth Tenneti - I completed my PhD in Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in December 2016. I have studied intrinsic alignments of galaxies using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Intrinsic alignments are an important astrophysical systematic in the weak lensing analysis for upcoming surveys such as the LSST (Rubin) and Euclid.
Nicole Nesvadba, directrice de recherche at the CNRS, is an expert in galaxy evolution based at the Laboratoire Lagrange at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice, France.