The Dream Team

  • Nicholas Vieira

    PhD student at McGill (co-supervised)

    Nicholas is pioneering new approaches to performing Bayesian inference on kilonova spectra, with the goal of identifying absorption lines of specific heavy elements and probing the r-process abundance patterns.

  • Élodie Lescure

    MSc student at Bishop’s, NSERC CGS-M

    Élodie is making the first comparison between the inferred r-process abundance pattern in the GW170817 kilonova to abundance patterns measured in metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo.

  • Patrick Horlaville

    MSc student at Bishop’s

    Patrick is applying our new insights into the unique characteristics of binary supermassive black hole host galaxies to a conduct a novel search for dual AGN in archival datasets.

  • Weixiang Yu

    Canadian Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow at Bishop’s

    Weixiang is performing calculations to quantify the background of transient and variable sources that will contaminate telescope follow-up observations of gravitational wave events.

  • Olivier Gilbert

    BSc student at Université Laval

    Olivier is using new Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a sample of faded ‘changing-look‘ quasars to understand the geometry of their accretion flows at extremely low luminosities.

Former Team Members

  • Samuel Gagnon-Hartman

    Bishop’s MSc 2022, now PhD student in Astrophysics at Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa

  • Virginia Marquez-Pacheco

    BSc student at Bishop’s

  • Jaeden Bardati

    Bishop’s BSc 2023, now PhD student in Physics at Caltech

  • Nicole Ford

    McGill MSc 2023 (co-supervised), now PhD student in Physics at McGill