Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD
Professor
MOST: Canada’s first space telescope, pulsating stars and the nature of stars in general, search for and study of extrasolar planets, public education in astronomy, tracking asteroids from space, solar system, space science
Aaron Boley, PhD
Associate Professor
Astronomy, planetary science, solar system, space science
Mark Halpern, PhD
Professor
Cosmology, cosmic background radiation, history of star formation, measuring the geometry and contents of the universe, satellites, balloon-borne telescopes, the physics of music, solar system, space science
Brett Gladman
Professor
Astronomy, planetary science, meteorites, astrobiology, solar system, space science
Ludovic Van Waerbeke
Associate Professor
Astrophysics, cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, universe, gravitational lensing, galaxy, galaxies, structure formation, solar system, space science
Douglas Scott, PhD
Professor
Cosmology, the Universe, large scale structure, cosmic microwave background, dark matter, galaxies, astrophysics, solar system, space science
Kris Sigurdson, PhD
Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology
The universe, cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, cosmic 21-cm fluctuations, radio astronomy, CHIME, solar system, space science
Ingrid Stairs
Professor
Pulsars, gravity, general relativity, radio astronomy, radio pulsars, pulsar searches and long-term timing, solar system, space science
Jeremy Heyl, AB (Princeton), MSc (Cambridge), PhD (UCSC)
Professor
Neutron stars, high-energy astrophysics, black holes, x-ray astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, stars, quantum field theory, white dwarfs, solar system, space science
Paul Hickson
Professor
Astrophysics, cosmology, galaxies, telescopes, clusters, instrumentation, adaptive optics, solar system, space science
William McCutcheon
Professor Emeritus
Radio astronomy, star formation, interstellar medium, radio telescopes, solar system, space science
William Unruh
Professor
Black holes, cosmology, quantum computers, theory of gravity, solar system, space science
Mr. Yannick Lecoeuche, MS in Physics
PhD student
Gravitational wave, binary merger, black hole, neutron star, detector characterization, bayesian inference, data science, machine learning
Scott Oser, PhD
Professor
Neutrinos, particle physics, particle astrophysics, dark matter, SuperCDMS, solar system, space science
Jess McIver
Assistant Professor
Gravitational wave astronomy, multi-messenger astrophysics, LIGO, gravitational wave detectors, neutron stars, black holes, supernova,
Dr. Ilsa Cooke, PhD
Assistant Professor
astrochemistry, physical chemistry, interstellar medium, radio astronomy, molecular spectroscopy, laboratory astrophysics, reaction kinetics and dynamics, ultrahigh vacuum, photovchemistry,
Dr. Allison Man, PhD
Assistant Professor
Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy formation and evolution, Early Universe, Star formation, Supermassive black holes, Galaxy mergers, Galaxy structure and kinematics, Stellar populations, Interstellar medium, Gravitational lensing, Optical and near-infrared observations, Sub-millimeter/radio observations,
Dr. Shandin Pete
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Indigenous science, Indigenous research methodology, hydrology, ethnohydrology, hydrogeology, surface water/groundwater interaction, culturally congruent instruction, ethnography, Indigenous astronomy, Indigenous philosophies,