Dr. Masahiro Takada graduated from Tohoku University in 2001. He is currently a Professor at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Kavli (IPMU), The University of Tokyo. His research interests are:
Rachael Beaton is currently a Carengie-Princeton Fellow at Princeton University. She completed her PhD in 2014 from the University of Virginia and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science before moving to Princeton as a Hubble Fellow in 2017. Rachael is an observational astronomer working on large and small surveys that address modern challenges in cosmology using distances.
Dr Jack Elvin-Poole is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP). He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2018 where he studied the large-scale structure of the universe and neutrino cosmology. His main research interests are using galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing to test the Lambda-CDM cosmological model.
Megan Donahue is a professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan. She is interested in astrophysical questions relating to intergalactic baryons, particularly those surrounding galaxies. Those questions range from cosmology and dark matter to galaxy evolution. Her PhD in astrophysics is from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Jingjing Shi is a IPMU fellow at Kavli IPMU in Japan. She investigates the interplay between large scale structure, dark matter halos, and galaxies. She got her PhD in 2017 from SISSA in Italy. Prior to joining IPMU, she was a Boya fellow at KIAA in Peking University.
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Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Vishveshwara's research spans a broad range of topics in quantum condensed matter theory. Her group maintains active collaborations worldwide and strong ties with condensed matter and cold atomic experimentalists. Her work also interfaces with other sub-disciplines, such as with biological physics and gravitation.
Dr. Michael Meyer is a Professor at the University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996. Dr.
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University of Surrey
Dr. Andrew Pontzen is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cosmology at the University College London (UCL). He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge in 2009. His work focuses on understanding dark matter – a mysterious component of the universe that is hypothesised to drive the formation of galaxies and other structures.