
Principal Investigator
Daryl Haggard
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

Postdoctoral Fellow
Lauren Rhodes
Lauren joined in 2024. She uses radio telescopes to study relativistic jets launched by black holes of all masses.
Email: lauren.rhodes@mcgill.ca

Postdoctoral Fellow
Sophia Waddell
Sophia joined the team in 2024. Sophia is an expert in X-ray observations of growing supermassive black holes.
Email: sophia.waddell@mcgill.ca

Postdoctoral Fellow
Hannah Dykaar
Hannah joined in 2025. She studies tidal disruption events (black holes eating stars!) and other transient radio phenomena.
Email: hannah.dykaar@mail.mcgill.ca

Postdoctoral Fellow
Mayura Balakrishnan
Mayura joined the team in 2025. She works on X-ray and multi-wavelength studies of Sgr A* and the Galactic Centre, with a particular interest in outflowing jets and winds.
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PhD Graduate Student
Nicole Ford
Nicole joined the team in 2021. She first worked on multi-messenger studies of compact object mergers and now investigates AGN in the EHT ETHER sample using multi-wavelength observations.
Email: nicole.ford@mail.mcgill.ca

PhD Graduate Student
Chris Sheridan
Chris joined the team in 2025. He works on studies of M87* and other active galactic nuclei as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

PhD Graduate Student
Nayyer Raza
Nayyer joined the team in 2022. He is using machine learning and multi-messenger astrophysics to study compact object mergers detected via their gravitational wave emission.
Email: nayyer.raza@mail.mcgill.ca

MSc Graduate Student
Joshua Goodeve
Joshua joined the team in 2024. He is co-supervised by Adrian Liu. He will be researching how slow radio transients could be detected by CHORD and whether they could be caused by active galactic nuclei, tidal disruptions and/or GRBs.

MSc Graduate Student
Rebecca Hamel
Rebecca joined the team in 2024. She uses Bayesian Inference via the SPARK tool to understand the spectrum of GW sources. She is co-supervised by Dr. John Ruan at Bishops.
Email: rebecca.hamel@mail.mcgill.ca

MSc Graduate Student
Eliot Raschetti
Eliot will join the team in Spring 2026. He will study tidal disruption events (TDEs) detected at radio wavelengths, indicative of a newly formed jet or outflow.
Email: TO COME!
