Events

Felipe Andrade-Oliveira is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. His research is focused on the investigation of the Large Scale Structure and the Dark Energy nature through Cosmological Surveys. He works as a Pipeline Scientist for Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) where he is also the co-leader of the covariance topic team.

Roan Haggar is a postdoctoral fellow, working with simulations of galaxy clusters. He has a particular interest in cluster dynamics, galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, and is also involved in science communication and outreach.

Stefano Camera is an Associate Professor at the University of Turin (Italy), where he returned after having been postdoc and research fellow at the High Technical Institute of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics of The University of Manchester (UK).  His research spans various areas of cosmology with surveys of the large-scale structure of the Univers

Mohaddesseh Azimlu completed her PhD dissertation on studying star-forming regions at University of Waterloo in 2009. Then continued her research on star formation in other galaxies at Western University in London, Ontario and later joined Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 2011. She left academia and joined Ontario Public Services in 2015, but continued outreach activities in science and astronomy since then. She is currently a team lead at the Ministry of Health, employing her knowledge in data science and mathematical modeling to lead data and forecasting team in public drug programs. 

Celebrate Dark Matter Day with some Dark Matter Trivia!

Hypothetically speaking, what is believed to account for 85% of matter in the Universe? If you answered, DARK MATTER, then you’re exactly the person we’re looking for! If you didn’t… then join us anyway for a fun evening playing online trivia and pretend like you know the answers!

Liza Sazonova is a an incoming postdoctoral fellow at uWaterloo, working on structural evolution of galaxies using the upcoming Rubin LSST survey. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where she worked as part of the SPOGs collaboration on trying to understand the life and death of post-starburst galaxies.  

Sara Issaoun is an NHFP Einstein Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. Her research centers around the collection, calibration, and imaging of millimeter-wave radio observations of supermassive black holes. Sara aims to expand millimeter-wave radio imaging capabilities and forge strong connections between the first images of supermassive black hole shadows and physics probed by partner facilities across the electromagnetic spectrum. Multi-wavelength constraints on black hole accretion flow properties will critically inform the scientific interpretation of images of black hole shadows, our understanding of jet-launching mechanisms, black hole spin measurements, and, ultimately, precision tests of General Relativity.

Emery Trott is a Physics PhD candidate at the University of Michigan advised by Dragan Huterer. Emery is interested in tensions in the LCDM model of the Universe, and is currently working on how gravitational waves can inform us about the Hubble constant.

Jon Carrick is a CFA® charterholder who has focused his career on development finance initiatives across the globe.  He is Senior Investment Manager at InfraCo Africa, and has led investments in the water, transport, and power sectors including for renewable grid-tied independent power projects.  Jon is a Non-Executive Director for Bboxx, an off-grid service provider who designs, man

Ana Ennis is currently a PhD fellow from CONICET, Argentina, who will soon be joining the University of Waterloo as a postdoctoral fellow. Her main research interests are the formation and evolution of galaxies, and she has mainly worked on studying the evolutionary history of early-type galaxies using discrete tracers such as globular clusters and planetary nebulae.