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Pierre Guillard is an associate Professor at Sorbonne University, and researcher at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), France.  His background expertise is the physics of the interstellar medium and multi-wavelength observations of galaxy interactions and radio galaxies. He is interested in galaxy formation processes and more specifically in the role of the turbulence in the context of galaxy evolution. He is also deeply involved in the technical and science preparation of the James Webb Space telescope and Euclid missions. 

Andrey Kravtsov is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics since 2001. 

Miguel Zumalacarregui works on different angles to understand the dark universe, testing models of gravity, dark energy, dark matter and generally exploring the potential of cosmological and gravitational wave observations to test fundamental physics. Since 2020, Miguel is a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

Dr. Andrina Nicola is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, working with Jo Dunkley and David Spergel.  She did her undergrad and PhD at ETH Zurich.  Dr. Nicola's  research focus lies between theoretical and observational cosmology. She develops methods for combining the information from different cosmological probes so as to better constrain our cosmological model and shed light on its two mysterious ingredients, Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Anže Slosar graduated from Cambridge, followed by postdocs in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Oxford and Berkeley before moving to a staff Scientist position at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a group leader for Cosmology & Astrophysics Group. He is interested in all experimental probes of cosmology and has worked on numerous topics including Lyman-alpha forest, galaxy clustering, primordial non-Gaussianity and recently on analysis of photometric galaxy surveys.

Dr. Allison Man is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She investigates the physics behind starbursts, colliding galaxies and supermassive black holes. Allison received her PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Copenhagen. Prior to joining UBC, she was an ESO Fellow at the European Southern Observatory Headquarters and a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Doris Stoppacher is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Astrophysics Research Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a background in stellar and extra-galactic astrophysics but focused on galaxy formation modeling during her PhD. She is particularly interested in the formation and evolutionary channels of today's most luminous and massive galaxies residing in halos that serve as the building blocks of the cosmic web.

Dr. Nicole Drakos is an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Astrophysics Research Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2019, where she studied dark matter halo evolution. Her main research interests are using theoretical and computational models of structure formation to study cosmology and galaxy evolution.

Prof Tamara Davis did her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2004 studying theoretical concepts behind the expanding universe and the entropy of the cosmological event horizon.  Since then she’s specialised in observational cosmology including supernova cosmology, baryon acoustic oscillations, and reverberation mapping of black holes, working with and helping lead parts of large projects such as the Dark Energy Survey.  Amongst her accolades are the Australian Academy of Science’s Nancy Millis Medal, the Astronomical Society’s of Australia’s Ellery Lectureship, and an Order of Australia.  She also is a passionate advocate for science in the community and the “Black Hole Hunters” documentary she hosted won the 2020 American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award.

Prof Masahiro Takada did his PhD at Tohoku University in Japan in 2001 studying weak lensing effect on the cosmic microwave background, and then spent three years to develop more substantial expertise at University of Pennsylvania as a postdoc for 2001-2004.