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Rachael Beaton is currently a Carengie-Princeton Fellow at Princeton University. She completed her PhD in 2014 from the University of Virginia and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science before moving to Princeton as a Hubble Fellow in 2017. Rachael is an observational astronomer working on large and small surveys that address modern challenges in cosmology using distances. 

Chen Heinrich is a postdoc in cosmology at California Institute of Technology. She obtained for Ph.D. in 2017 from University of Chicago, where she specialized in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) under the supervision of Prof. Wayne Hu.

Dr Jack Elvin-Poole is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP). He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2018 where he studied the large-scale structure of the universe and neutrino cosmology. His main research interests are using galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing to test the Lambda-CDM cosmological model.

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Jingjing Shi is a IPMU fellow at Kavli IPMU in Japan. She investigates the interplay between large scale structure, dark matter halos, and galaxies. She got her PhD in 2017 from SISSA in Italy. Prior to joining IPMU, she was a Boya fellow at KIAA in Peking University. 

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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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Mustafa Amin is an Associate Professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas (USA). Before moving to Rice, he held a Senior Kavli Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a Pappalardo Fellowship at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology and recieved his PhD from Stanford University.

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.