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.
Mohammad Zhoolideh Haghighi is an assistant professor at the K. N. Tossi University of Technology. He studies different aspects of galaxy groups and galaxy clusters, including their dynamical relaxation and their hydrodynamics. Mohammad also takes advantage of machine learning techniques in astronomy for object detection, image processing, and automating telescopes in observatories.
Marco Bonici is a postdoc at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Waterloo. Originally from Genova, in 2017 he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree at Università degli Studi di Genova in Theoretical Physics. He completed his PhD in Physics and Astrophysics in 2021 at University of Genova, under the supervision of Dr. Carmelita Carbone.
Hanyu Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics. He completed his Ph.D in physics at Kansas State University under the supervision of Dr. Lado Samushia. Hanyu is actively involved in the DESI collaboration, contributing to various projects, working groups, and co-leading the Galaxy-Halo Connection topical group.
Renee Hlozek is an Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UofT. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa where she completed her undergraduate degree. She completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2011 as a South African Rhodes Scholar.
Ryan Cloutier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. Ryan completed his PhD at the University of Toronto before taking up a postdoctoral fellowship and a Banting Fellowship at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian.
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Bobby Bickley is an astronomy Ph.D. candidate at the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC). He also holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut.
Gerrit Farren is a final year PhD student at the University of Cambridge working primarily on CMB lensing and CMB lensing cross-correlations. Originally from Mönchengladbach in Germany, Gerrit studied at Haverford College in Philadelphia working with Bruce Partridge and Daniel Grin, before moving to Cambridge to pursue his PhD under the supervision of Blake Sherwin.
Sean Ressler is a postdoctoral fellow at CITA working on general relativistic and Newtonian simulations of black hole accretion. The motivation of his work is to make these simulations more realistic by incorporating more physics, more observational input, or connecting smaller scales to larger scales (or vice versa).