M.E.G.A.
McGill Extreme Gravity & Accretion Group
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.
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Hope Boyce
PhD Graduate Student
Hope joined the team in 2016. Her focus is on supermassive black hole gas dynamics in Sgr A* and other nearby galaxies.
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Théophile Bégin
MSc Graduate Student
Nicholas Vieira
MSc Graduate Student
Nick joined the team in 2020. He works to identify optical and infrared counterparts to GW sources.
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Sam Gagnon-Hartman
MSc Graduate Student
Sam joined the team in 2021. He located primarily at Bishop’s University and is co-supervised by John Ruan.
Email: sgagnon20@ubishops.ca
Kristen Dage
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kristen joined the team in 2020. She uses multi-wavelength observations to ID the brightest X-ray sources in star clusters.
Email:
kcdage@msu.edu
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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Coni Echiburú
MSc Graduate Student
Coni joined the team in 2019. Her focus is on multi-messenger astrophysics and jet production.
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Anan Lu
MSc 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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Maïmouna Brigitte
Visiting MSc Graduate Student
Maïmouna will join us during the summer 2021, but is primarily at Université Grenoble Alpes
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