Aman Agarwal
Position & Affiliation:
- Ph.D. Student, University of Greifswald (Germany)
- formerly: Resident Ph.D. Student, Perimeter Institute and University of Guelph (Canada)
Research Interests:
- Accretion disks around black-holes
- Collapsars: Collapse of massive rotating stars
- Chemical evolution in the universe: especially r-process nucleosynthesis
My personal website can be found here.
Daniel Siegel (team coach)
Position & Affiliation:
- W3-Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Greifswald
- Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada)
- Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph (Canada)
Research Interests:
- Plasmas in strongly curved and dynamical spacetimes
- Gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astrophysics
- nuclear & high-energy astrophysics
- modelling of compact binary mergers
- gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae
- computational astrophysics & supercomputing
Further References:
Dhruv Desai
Position & Affiliation:
- Postdoc, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Greifswald
Research Interests:
- neutron star winds
- r-process sites
Franz Bronold
Position & Affiliation:
- Senior Lecturer, University of Greifswald (Germany)
Research Interests:
- charge-transfer across plasma-solid interfaces, transport theory
- exciton condensation, electron-hole liquids, ferroelectricity
- spin relaxation and spin transport in III-V semiconductors
- strongly coupled electron-phonon systems, polarons
- Anderson localization of electron and polaron states
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Javiera Hernández Morales
Position & Affiliation:
- Ph.D. Student, Universität Greifswald (Germany)
Research Interests:
- plasma astrophysics
- r-process sites
Luciano Combi
Position & Affiliation:
- Postdoc, Perimeter Institute
- CITA National Fellow at Perimeter Institute and University of Guelph
Research Interests:
- electromagnetic emission from compact objects
- binary neutron star mergers
- supermassive black hole binaries
- pulsars and radio astronomy
A current version of my CV can be found here here
Michael Müller
Position & Affiliation:
- Ph.D. Student, Universität Greifswald (Germany)
- formerly: Resident Ph.D. Student, Perimeter Institute and University of Guelph (Canada)
Research Interests:
- black hole-neutron star mergers in numreical relativity
- force-free and resistive magnetohydrodynamics
- kilonova modelling
- hierarchical gravitational wave inference with tides
A current version of my CV can be found here.
W. Callum Wareham
Position & Affiliation:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Guelph (Canada)
Research Interests:
- modelling multi-component kilonova emission based on the output from binary merger simulations
Xinyu Li
Position & Affiliation:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
and Perimeter Institute (Canada)
Research Interests:
- high energy astrophysics
- cosmology
- plasma astrophysics
A current version of my CV as well as my personal website can be found here.
Previous members & visitors
| Name | Role | Thesis | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Javiera Hernández Morales |
M.Sc. student | M.Sc. thesis (Perimeter Scholars International program), 1-D Models of Neutrino-cooled Accretion Disks | 2022 |
|
Cynthia Belen Arias Pruna |
M.Sc. student | M.Sc. thesis (Perimeter Scholars International program), Distinguishing Primordial from Astrophysical Black Holes via the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background | 2022 |
|
William Callum Wareham |
B.Sc. student | B.Sc. thesis (University of Guelph), Kilonova Modelling with Wavelength-Dependent Central Engine Thermalization | 2021/2022 |
| Soumi De | visitor, Ph.D. student (Syracuse University) | now Director’s Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory | -- |
| Yossef Zenati | visitor, Ph.D. student (Technion, Israel) | now Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Fellow | -- |
| Matthew Dutcher | M.Sc. student | University of Guelph, now private sector | -- |
| Matthew Dutcher |
Undergraduate Research Assistant |
University of Guelph | -- |