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Bhuvnesh Jain's research area is cosmology and gravitational lensing. The questions he studies are: How did small fluctuations in the early universe grow  to form the large-scale structure observed today? What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And how did these mysterious components of our universe shape the formation of galaxies and clusters?  

Catherine Heymans is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, Director of the GCCL Institute at the University of Bochum, Germany and a European Research Council Fellow.   She specialises in observing the dark side of our Universe using deep sky observations to test whether we need to go beyond Einstein with our current theory of gravity. 

Alexa Villaume is a Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo. She recently completed by PhD at the University of California Santa Cruz as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow under the advisement of Professors  Jean Brodie and Charlie Conroy (Harvard).

Amjad Ashoorioon is a Faculty Member in the School of Physics at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.  His research interests include Early Universe Cosmology, Inflation, Cosmological perturbation theory and Stringy Cosmology.

Erin Kara is an Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT. Originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, she attended Barnard College, where she obtained a B.A. in physics with a minor in art history. After graduating in 2011, she moved to the United Kingdom on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study for a Masters and a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

ChangHoon Hahn is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. His research focuses on developing and applying data science and statistical techniques to large galaxy surveys in order to understand galaxy formation/evolution and test fundamental physics with the large-scale structures of the Universe. Before Princeton, ChangHoon was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. He completed his PhD in Physics at New York University Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro is an associate research scholar at Princeton University. He completed his PhD at the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular in Valencia, Spain. He has held post-doctoral positions at the Trieste Observatory, Italy and the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Francisco is interested in studying cosmology using the large-scale structure of the Universe. More recently, he has been applying machine learning techniques to cosmology and astrophysics. Francisco is the main architect of the Quijote and CAMEL simulations.

Michael McDonald is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. He obtained his BScH and MSc degrees in Physics at Queen's University in Canada, and his PhD in Astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Michael spent three years as a Hubble Fellow at MIT, before being hired as an Assistant Professor in July 2015.

Dr. Christopher O’Dea received a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Astronomy from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He held postdoctoral positions at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, and faculty positions at STScI and Rochester Institute of Technology, and is currently Professor of Physics & Astronomy at University of Manitoba.

Cora Uhlemann works on modelling cosmic structure formation by utilising tools from different areas of theoretical physics in order to probe fundamental physics. In particular, she is interested in non-Gaussian clustering statistics and nonlinear gravitational dynamics. Cora is a Euclid collaboration member and co-leads the work package for Additional Galaxy Clustering Probes.