As head of M.E.G.A. I am proud to have a diverse group of enthusiastic astrophysicists working with me.

Joana will join in October 2026.She applies magnetohydrodynamic simulations to understand the jets produced by black holes across the mass spectrum, from X-ray binaries to AGN, bridging theory and observations from radio to X-ray.

Mohammed joined in 2026. He will be working on developing software for CanDIAPL. He has a research background in radio astronomy and fast radio bursts

Ketan joined in 2026 He will be working on developing software for CanDIAPL.

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.

Hannah joined in 2025. She studies tidal disruption events (black holes eating stars!) and other transient radio phenomena.

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

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

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.

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.

Eliot joined the team in Spring 2026. He will study tidal disruption events (TDEs) detected at radio wavelengths, indicative of a newly formed jet or outflow. 

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.

Helena joined the team in Fall 2026. She studies X-ray emission spectra of Galactic Center molecular. clouds.

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Rich joined the team in Fall 2026. He will focuses on numerical modeling of fluid and thermal dynamics on the surface of accreting neutron stars.

Sierra joined the team in Fall 2026. She will study the X-ray emission spectra from radio-loud, jetted Seyfert-1 galaxies.

Braden joined the team in Fall 2026. They study compact object accretion, astrophysical jets, and AGN variability with radio VLBI.

Nora joined the team in Fall 2026. She studies the Milky Way's Galactic Center at long wavelengths. She is currently searching for signatures of a potential cool accretion disk around Sgr A* in the mid-infrared.

Emily joined the team in Fall 2026. She is investigating possible electromagnetic counterparts to stellar-mass binary black hole mergers, particularly in gas-rich environments such as active galactic nucleus disks, and how these signals can be used to probe the binary and its environment.

Bhuvan joined the team in Fall 2026. He is co-supervised by Tracy Webb. He studies the co-evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time.

Florent joined the team in Fall 2026.

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