Our Team
Group Leader
Prof. Adrian Liu
Assistant Professor & William Dawson Scholar
McGill Dept. of Physics & McGill Space Institute
Sloan Research Fellow
CIFAR Azireli Global Scholar
Contact: [email protected]
I work on all aspects of the group's research, from the theoretical modelling of first-generation galaxies to figuring out new observational signatures for constraining cosmological theories to data analysis algorithms and actual data analysis. Outside of work I enjoy swimming, climbing, and listening to classical music.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Debanjan Sarkar
Trottier Space Institute Fellow
I specialize in using the line intensity mapping technique to study cosmology and astrophysics, particularly in theoretical modelling. Additionally, I study the bispectrum signal for future galaxy surveys, investigating the detection prospects of bispectrum multipoles.
Dr. Mike Wilensky
CITA National Fellow
I work on 21cm cosmology and have worked on the MWA, HERA, and CHORD. I specialize in rigorous statistical treatments of data and particularly Bayesian inference i.e. “probability as logic” and applying it to actual data sets.
Graduate Students
Hannah Fronenberg
PhD student
I incorporate real-world effects into cosmological forecasts to figure out the ultimate scientific reach of new intensity mapping and CMB lensing experiments. I have also examined the way in which Fast Radio Bursts can constrain reionization.
Bobby Pascua
PhD student
I work on various aspects of 21cm data analysis, with my current focus being new methods for calibrating radio interferometers.
Mattéo Blamart
PhD student
I work on developing statistics beyond the power spectrum for describing 21cm fluctuations with the light cone effect. I also work with Prof. Robert Brandenberger on cosmic strings.
Kim Morel
PhD student
I work on the HERA telescope and am currently focusing on novel foreground mitigation methods and cross-correlating foregrounds with cosmic structure as seen in optical galaxy surveys
Sophia Rubens
PhD student
I bridge the experimental/theory divide by understanding systematic errors in the CHORD telescope and figuring out how such errors affect our ability to measure fundamental cosmological parameters.
Josh Goodeve
MSc student
I work on forecasting the CHORD telescope's ability to detect slow radio transients (on the timescales of days to years), which will provide a unique view into high-energy astrophysical processes.
Undergraduate Researchers
Audrey Bernier
Brenna Bordniuk
Group Alumni
Postdocs
Adélie Gorce (Trottier Astrophysics Fellow), now in a faculty-equivalent position at Université Paris-Saclay (website)
Jordan Mirocha (CITA National Fellow), now a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (website)
Saurabh Singh (Trottier Astrophysics Fellow), now an Associate Professor at the Raman Research Institute (website)
Graduate students
Lisa McBride (PhD 2024), now a postdoc at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale at the Université Paris-Saclay
Michael Pagano (PhD 2023), now a joint postdoc fellow at the Gran Sasso Science Institute and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
João Buschinelli (MSc 2022), now a cybersecurity analyst at Orbium
Sabrina Berger (MSc 2022), now a PhD student at the University of Melbourne.
Samskruthi Ganjam (MSc 2021), now a PhD student at Purdue University
Undergraduates
Ella Iles, now a BSc student at McGill
Franco del Balso, now a BSc student at McGill
Mariah Zeroug, now a BSc student at McGill
Olivia Pereira, now a BSc student at McGill
Rafael Cottom (CHAMP program), now a BSc student at UC Santa Cruz
Jasmine Asfour-Palacios (CHAMP program)
Yael Demers, now an asset investment modeller at Direxyon Technologies
Jacob Kennedy, now a PhD student Rutgers University
Hugo Baraër, now on a gap-year world tour
Ben Cheung, now a BSc student at McGill
Joëlle Bégin, now a PhD student at Princeton University
Jasmine Parsons, now a PhD student at Princeton University
Jade Ducharme, now a PhD student at Brown University
Aidan Lewandowski, now an intern at Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Kevin Sohn, now an MSc student at Imperial College London
Jonathan Colaço Carr, now an MSc student in Computer Science at McGill
Isabella Ricci, now a BSc student at McGill
Vivian Bai (CHAMP program), now a BSc student at UC San Diego
Niah Freeman (CHAMP program)
Lewis Mackay, now an MSc student at McGill
Jing Liu, now a computer engineer at Google
Joe Bhangal, now an MSc student at Imperial College London
Alex Laroche, now an MSc student at the University of Toronto
Samuel Gagnon-Hartman, now an PhD student at Scuola Normale Superiore with Prof. Andrei Mesinger
Anna Gagnebin (CHAMP program), now a BSc student at CSU Sacramento
Iman Fahmy (CHAMP program), now a BSc student at UC Berkeley
Félix Bilodeau-Chagnon, now a backend developer at 3ejouer
Emma Klemets, now an MSc student at UBC.
William LaPlante, now an MSc student in statistics at UBC
Taylor Dibblee-Barkman, now an MSc student at McGill with Prof. Jon Sievers
Henri Lamarre, now a PhD student at the University of Montreal
Ronan Legin, now a PhD student at the University of Montreal
Yue "Christine" Cui (Mitacs Globalink Intern), now a PhD student in computer science at HKUST
Dixin Chen, now a PhD student at UPenn
Damien Pinto, now an MSc student at McGill in Prof. Nik Provatas' group
Ana Alexandre, now a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Physics
Jianrong Tan (post-BSc gap year researcher), now a PhD student at UPenn