Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carolina Cuesta Lazaro is an IAIFI Fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, holding a shared position between MIT and the Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Carolina is interested in developing robust and interpretable Machine Learning models that can guide us towards future discoveries in physics.

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. 

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.

Claudia Maraston is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth (UK), where she has been since 2007.  She obtained her PhD at the University of Bologna, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich and the Max-Planck Institute for extra-terrestrial physics (MPE) in Garching.

Astronomy on Tap has landed in Kitchener-Waterloo!

Astronomy on Tap is a series of monthly events that take place in bars and pubs in more than 50 cities worldwide. They are aimed at the general public and consist of accessible, engaging presentations on space and science, designed to share astronomy in a fun, relaxed, informal environment.