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Associates

Name Contact Research

Laura Buchanan
Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

laurabuchanan@uvic.ca 

Trans-Neptunian objects

Weiqi Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

 weiqiwang@uvic.ca

Protoplanetary disks, deep learning


Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

 lferreira@uvic.ca

Galaxy mergers, galaxy evolution


Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

 aksharaviswanathan@uvic.ca

Metal-poor stars, stellar streams

Blake Ledger
Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

 bledger@uvic.ca

Galaxy evolution

Deborah Lokhorst
Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Deborah.Lokhorst@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Astronomical instrumentation, cosmic web


Astronomer
NRC Herzberg

Tobias.Brown@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Galaxy evolution, molecular gas, large astronomical surveys

Simon Blouin
Postdoctoral Fellow
UVic

Bob Wright Centre A231 

Stellar hydrodynamics, white dwarfs, stellar evolution

Principal Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Room 135, DAO
250-363-0025

Stellar spectroscopy; peculiar stars; exoplanet hosts,
diffuse interstellar bands
Benoit Côté
Postdoctoral Fellow
Uvic

benoit.cote@csfk.org


Senior Astronomer
NRC Herzberg

Room 403, DAO 250-363-0026

Dwarf galaxies; galaxy formation & evolution
Adjunct Professor; Emeritus Research Scientist
Physics and Astronomy; NRC Herzberg

 

Galaxy formation, astronomical instrumentation

Astronomer, Principal Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Room 404, DAO
250-363-0047

Galaxy evolution; instrumentation
Barry Davids
Scientist
TRIUMF

ISAC-II Room 140
604-222-7396

Nuclear astrophysics and structure

Senior Research Associate
UVic Physics & Astronomy

Elliott 210
250-721-7739

Stellar evolution; nuclear astrophysics

Nicholas Esker
Post-doctoral Fellow
TRIUMF

neesker@triumf.ca

Séverin Gaudet
Software Project Manager
NRC Herzberg

Room 138, DAO
250-363-0074

Data management, data interoperability, data-intensive computing environments

Data Specialist
NRC Herzberg

Room 139, DAO
250-363-3136

Image processing techniques

Postdoctoral Fellow 
NRC Herzberg

Room 379, DAO
250-363-0070 

 

Stellar populations, APOGEE survey, GHOST commissioning 

Glen Herriot
Systems Engineer
NRC Herzberg

Room 364, DAO
250-363-0073

TMT NFIRAOS
Jim Hesser
Emeritus Director, DAO
NRC Herzberg

Room 406, DAO
250-363-0007

Stellar populations, education & public outreach, observatory development, operations and governance
Frank Jiang
NRC Herzberg
Radio telescope design; millimeter technologies

Olivier Lardiere
NRC Herzberg

Astronomical instrumentation
Senior Lab Instructor
UVic Physics and Astronomy

Elliott 113
250-721-7708

Quantum optics, atomic physics, quantum information

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, UBC

ECS 612
250-472-5837

Computer Science, Deep Learning and Machine Learning

Dhruv Muley
Research Assistant
Uvic

205
dmuley@uvic.ca 

John Ouellette
Operations Manager CADC
NRC Herzberg

Room 155, DAO
250-363-3037

Stellar astrophysics, astronomy data services, data centre operations

John Pazder
Optical Team Leader
NRC Herzberg

250-363-0058

Advanced optics
Prof. Chris Pritchet
Emeritus faculty
Uvic
Supernovae astrophysics

Astronomer 
NRC DRAO

Room 222, DRAO
250-497-2350

Observational astronomy, microwave spectropolarimetry, interstellar magnetism

Joel Roediger
Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Room 312, DAO
250-363-0071

Galaxy evolution, stellar populations, galaxy clusters, globular clusters

Director, DRAO
NRC DRAO

DRAO
250 497-2307

White dwarf & X-ray binaries, variable sources, nearby galaxies, radio interferometry


Senior Research Officer, Millimetre Astronomy Group Leader
NRC Herzberg

Room 313, DAO
250-363-6919
Gerald.Schieven

Star & planet formation, debris disks, interstellar medium

Federico Sestito
P
ostdoctoral Fellow 
Uvic

Bob Wright Centre A225
 


Senior Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

250-363-3452

High-res imaging; galaxy evolution & quasars

Professor (retired)
UVic Physics & Astronomy

Elliott 108
250-721-7703

Molecular Spectroscopy
Hossen Teimoorinia
Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Room 159, DAO
Hossen.Teimoorinia@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Machine Learning
William Thompson
Postdoctoral Fellow 
NRC Herzberg

wthompson@uvic.ca

Exoplanet direct imaging, methods, and instrumentation; asteroseismology
Bruce Veidt
Antenna engineer
NRC DRAO

Room 212, DRAO
250-497-2348
bruce.veidt@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Radio telescopes, phased-array feeds, wide-band antennas, low-noise amplifiers

Senior Research Officer
NRC Herzberg

Room 154, DAO
250-363-8368

Quasars; galaxy evolution; supermassive black holes
Stephenson Yang
UVic Physics & Astronomy
Bob Wright A117
250-853-3695
Precise radial velocities; variable stars
Adjunct Professor
UVic Physics and Astronomy; NRC Herzberg
Stellar astrophysics, exoplanets, instrumentation