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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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Bailey Tetarenko

Postdoctoral Fellow

Bailey will join the team during the summer of 2022. She focuses on the study of the physical processes governing astrophysical accretion discs in compact binary systems in our Galaxy.

Email: btetaren@ttu.edu

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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).

Email: soud.alkharusi@mail.mcgill.ca

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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.

Email: anan.lu@mail.mcgill.ca

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Nicole Ford

MSc Graduate Student

Nicole joined the team in 2021. She is using multi-messenger astrophysics to study compact object mergers.

Email: nicole.ford@mail.mcgill.ca

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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

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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.

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.
 

Email: nicholas.vieira@mail.mcgill.ca 

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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.

Email: nayyer.raza@mail.mcgill.ca

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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.

Email: elescure22@ubishops.ca

Looking Through Telescope

M.E.G.A. Undergrads

Charlotte Garcia,

Major Physics & CS

Marissa Lindon,
Major Physics 

Rawan Karam (thesis)
Major Physics

Katherine Lei (thesis)
Honours Physics
 
Jaeden Bardati (thesis)
Honours Physics, Bishops
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