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M.E.G.A.

McGill Extreme Gravity & Accretion Group
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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

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Sophia Waddell 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sophie joined the team in 2024. Sophia is an expert in X-ray observations of growing supermassive black holes.

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Email: sophia.waddell@mcgill.ca      

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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

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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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Email: nicholas.vieira@mail.mcgill.ca

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Nayyer Raza

PhD Graduate Student

Nayyer joined the team in 2022. He is using machine learning and multi-messenger astrophysics to study compact object mergers.

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Email: nayyer.raza@mail.mcgill.ca      

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Joshua Goodeve

MSc Graduate Student

Joshua joined the team in 2024. He will be co-supervision by Adrian Liu. He will be researching how slow radio transients could be caused by active galactic nuclei.​​​

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Email: joshua.goodeve@mail.mcgill.ca    

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Rebecca Hamel

MSc Graduate Student

Rebecca joined the team in 2024. She will be using Bayesian Inference on the spectrum of GW sources.

 

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Email: rebecca.hamel@mail.mcgill.ca

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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

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Lauren Rhodes

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lauren joined in 2024. She uses radio telescopes to study relativistic jets launched by black holes of all masses. 

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Email: lauren.rhodes@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                                                                     ​

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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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Email: gabriel.sasseville@umontreal.ca 

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Zach Sumners

MSc Graduate Student

Zach joined the team in 2024. He will be using machine learning to investigate Sgr A*. He is co-supervised by Dr. Yashar Hezaveh at UdeM/Ciela.

 

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Email: ronald.sumners@mail.mcgill.ca

Looking Through Telescope

M.E.G.A. Undergrads

Chaitanya Khamar
Summer Reseracher

Natalia Martorella
Major Physics


 
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