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Dom is a postdoctoral fellow for the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, working primarily on modeling and feature extraction techniques. He graduated in 2018 with a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Virginia, where he worked with Jim Braatz as a Reber Fellow at NRAO. Dom is also a member of the Megamaser Cosmology Project, and his other research interests include masers, supermassive black holes, and parameter exploration algorithms.

Go Ogiya is a new WCA postdoctoral fellow. Before coming to Waterloo, he received his PhD degree from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and held two postdoctoral positions at Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (Germany) and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (France).

Matt Dobbs is a physicist whose research aims to improve our fundamental understanding of the universe, including its origin, history and fate.  He is particularly interested in the early universe, where the laws of particle physics and cosmology intersect.

Ludovic Van Waerbeke is professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in the Cosmology and Gravity Program. The study of the universe is stumbling upon two mysteries: it is made of 5% of normal matter, 20% of an unknown type of matter, dark matter and for 75% of a puzzling form of energy, dark energy.

Alice Pisani is a cosmologist working at Princeton University. Her work focuses on using the large-scale structure of the Universe, and in particular the under-dense regions known as cosmic voids, to constrain cosmological models. She is a member of WFIRST, PFS and Euclid. 

Nienke van der Marel works as a Banting fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada). Her research focuses on planet formation in protoplanetary disks.

Prof. Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.  Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory.

After graduating from an engineering school, I started a Ph.D. in observational cosmology at CEA Saclay, France, in October 2017.  I have been working with the sample of Emission Line Galaxies from the eBOSS (extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey) program of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, one of the two largest ELG samples to date.