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Emily Deibert is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, where her research focuses on characterizing the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters and other exoplanets. Prior to starting at Waterloo, Emily was a Gemini Science Fellow and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gemini South Observatory in La Serena, Chile, where she worked as a member of the instrument science team for the observatory's new high-resolution optical spectrograph, GHOST. Emily completed a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and an undergraduate degree in Astronomy, English, and Mathematics, from the University of Toronto's St George campus. 

"Observing Black Holes from the Stratosphere"

Mayukh is currently a PhD candidate in Astronomy at Queen's University, Canada, working with Prof. Laura Fissel on the Balloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX). His research focuses on developing balloon-borne radio telescopes for Very Long Baseline Interferometry.

Felix Thiel currently is a PhD student in the Department of Physics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada and a member of the Balloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX) collaboration under the supervision of Laura Fissel.