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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.

Marta Reina-Campos is a CITA National Fellow at McMaster University working on connecting star clusters to galaxies with Dr. Sills. Previously, she completed her PhD in 2020 in Dr. Kruijssen’s group at Heidelberg University. 

Yashar Akrami is an Assistant Research Professor (Ramón y Cajal Fellow) of Theoretical Physics (Cosmology) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC in Madrid, Spain. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Claudia Maraston is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth (UK), where she has been since 2007.  She obtained her PhD at the University of Bologna, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich and the Max-Planck Institute for extra-terrestrial physics (MPE) in Garching.

Roman Gold is an Assistant Professor at CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark.  He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and was awarded the 2022 EHT Early Career Award for his significant contribution and leadership in the geometric modelling process and the analysis of the Sgr A* source structure.  

Prof. August E. (Gus) Evrard is a first generation computational cosmologist and educational innovator at the University of Michigan. Author of the first computational algorithm to enable multi-fluid cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, Prof. Evrard's astrophysical research aims to understand clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe.  

Connor Stone is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Montréal with an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and a CITA National Fellowship after receiving his Ph.D from Queen's University in 2022. He is a University of Waterloo alumnus, class of 2016.