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.
Email: daryl.haggard@mcgill.ca
Bailey Tetarenko
Postdoctoral Fellow (S22)
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
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).
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
Sam Gagnon-Hartman
MSc Graduate Student
Sam joined the team in 2021. He is 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
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.
Email: hope.boyce@mail.mcgill.ca
Nicholas Vieira
PhD Graduate Student
Nick joined the team in 2020. He works to identify optical and infrared counterparts to GW sources.
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
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
