Dr. Angelo Ricarte is a theoretical astrophysicist and Black Hole Initiative (BHI) fellow at the BHI at Harvard University. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley in 2013 before completing a Ph.D.
Jiamin is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow hosted by the University of Florida and the Max-Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial physics. She is interested in cosmology and applying summary statistics to the large-scale structure to understand the early Universe as well as fundamental laws of physics.
David is a Blavatnik and Rothchild fellow at the University of Cambridge, testing theories of gravity with diverse methods. My main research recently is focused on Binary motion of stars (pulsars, Gravitational waves, Gaia...) and Binary galaxies to test dark energy and modified gravity.
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo is a Canada Research Chair and an associate professor of physics at the Université de Montréal. She is an expert on the most massive black holes in the Universe and her work is revealing how these black holes act as the beating heart of galaxies, ultimately shaping the properties of galaxies throughout cosmic time.
Arthur is currently a research fellow at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (and about to move to The Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm in March). He graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with a master's from the University of Sao Paulo and a PhD from University College London in 2019.
Simone Paradiso is a postdoc at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at University of Waterloo. Originally from Rome, in 2016 he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Astrophysics. He completed his PhD in Physics and Astrophysics in 2021 at University of Milan.
Josh Speagle is an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics in the Department of Statistical Sciences and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on using a collection of astronomy, statistics, and data science to try and understand how galaxies like the Milky Way form, behave, and evolve.
Natalia Porqueres is a Beecroft fellow at Oxford University, working on cosmology. Her work focuses on understanding the large-scale structures of the Universe. For that, Natalia developed statistical and data analysis tools to optimally extract the information from the observations and make full use of the data.
Kristen Dage is currently a FRQNT postdoctoral fellow at McGill University where she uses multiwavelength observations to identify objects in extreme gravitational environments and characterise their physics. Kristen got her PhD in astrophysics in July 2020 from Michigan State University, and her Bachelor of Science in physics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2014.
Carolina Cuesta Lazaro is an IAIFI Fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, holding a shared position between MIT and the Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Carolina is interested in developing robust and interpretable Machine Learning models that can guide us towards future discoveries in physics.