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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
Hannah Dykaar
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Nicole Ford
PhD Graduate Student
Nicole joined the team in 2021. She first worked on multi-messenger studies of compact object mergers and now investigates AGN in the ETHER sample.
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Email: nicole.ford@mail.mcgill.ca ​
Chris Sheridan
PhD Graduate Student
Chris will join the the team in Fall 2025. He will work on studies of M87* and other active galactic nuclei as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.​​
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Email: TO COME!
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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