At the Dunlap Institute, Peter worked on the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), an innovative radio telescope that will survey a vast volume of the Universe to produce a three-dimensional map of neutral hydrogen by measuring the cosmologically red-shifted 21cm radiation it emits. Peter’s…

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Julie Bolduc-Duval has been working in science and astronomy education for nearly 25 years. She is the director of the bilingual astronomy education program Discover the Universe / À la découverte de l’univers, which is supported by the Dunlap Institute. Through this program, she helps…

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Ariel is a PhD candidate at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute. She is interested in extragalactic radio astronomy and magnetism. Her thesis specifically focuses on the magnetism of the cosmic web and large scale structure, the magnetism of…

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Elliot’s  research interests include exoplanets, galaxies and instrumentation. He worked with Shelley Wright on her Near-Infrared Optical SETI program (NIROSETI) which saw first light in January 2015. Elliot investigated aspects of the program, such as a preferred wavelength at which to search, and is also…

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Brian Cherinka joined the Dunlap in October, 2012, as part of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) team.

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Roberto Abraham’s research focuses on galaxy evolution over a time span of about 11 billion years. Abraham tries to answer questions such as: What did galaxies look like when the Universe was young? How can we best describe galaxies in a quantitative way? How do…

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At the Dunlap Institute, Shaojie Chen works on a variety of instrumentation projects, including the IRIS and OSIRIS spectrographs. Chen received her doctorate from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She joined the Dunlap Institute in March 2014. One-pager from the 2023 Jamboree

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Jo Bovy’s research focuses on trying to understand the dynamical structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. He is also working on innovative data analysis techniques for large data sets such as those generated by large astronomical surveys. Bovy serves as the Science…

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Tuan Do’s research focuses on the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, including the super-massive black hole found there, as well as Active Galactic Nuclei.

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Dae-Sik Moon’s research interests lie primarily in experimental astrophysics and astronomical instrumentation, along with observational studies of various objects. His research focuses on compact objects, including black holes, neutron stars and X-ray binaries. He is also interested in supernovae and supernovae remnants (both stellar and gaseous), optical…

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