Daryl Haggard
Principal Investigator
As head of M.E.G.A. I am proud to have a diverse group of enthusiastic astrophysicists working with me.
Email: daryl.haggard@mcgill.ca
Soud Al Kharusi
PhD Graduate Student
Soud joined the team in 2018. His focus is on multi-messenger astrophysics and “next” Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO).
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Anan Lu
PhD Graduate Student
Anan joined the team in 2020. She works on characterizing star formation in nearby galaxies with the SITELLE instrument on CFHT.
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Email: anan.lu@mail.mcgill.ca
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Nicole Ford
PhD Graduate Student
Nicole joined the team in 2021. She is using multi-messenger astrophysics to study compact object mergers.
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Email: nicole.ford@mail.mcgill.ca
Élodie Lescure
MSc Graduate Student
Élodie joined the team in 2022. She is located primarily at Bishop’s University and is co-supervised by John Ruan.
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Email: elescure22@ubishops.ca
Bailey Tetarenko
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bailey joined in 2022. She focuses on the study of the physical processes governing astrophysical accretion discs in compact binary systems in our Galaxy.
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Email: btetaren@ttu.edu
Mervyn Chan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mervyn joined the team in 2022 to work on GWSkyNet. He is primarily located at UBC, where he also works closely with Jess McIver.
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Email: mervync@phas.ubc.ca
Nicholas Vieira
PhD Graduate Student
Nick joined the team in 2020. He works to identify optical and infrared counterparts to GW sources.
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Nayyer Raza
PhD Graduate Student
Nayyer joined the team in Winter 2022. He will use machine learning and multi-messenger astrophysics to study compact object mergers.
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Email: nayyer.raza@mail.mcgill.ca
Gabriel Sasseville
MSc Graduate Student
Gabriel joined the team in 2023. He is based at the University of Montreal and is co-supervised with Dr. Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo.
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M.E.G.A. Undergrads
Ben Cheung
Honours Physics
Sara Babic
Major Physics & CS
Marissa Lindon
Major Physics