SIGNALS is a large multi-national collaboration that involves astronomers, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and others from 17 countries.
Principal Investigators
Principal Investigator
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is a faculty member at the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She comes with six years of experience working as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory supporting various instruments including wide-field cameras, high-resolution spectrographs, and the Fourier Transform Spectro-imager. She is currently developing instrumentation for Astronomy including a high resolution spectro-imager that uses Fourier Transform spectroscopy techniques in combination with quantum detectors (i.e. MKID array).
Co-Principal Investigator
Carmelle Robert
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Co-Principal Investigator
Laurent Drissen
Fascinated by massive stars, Wolf-Rayet and Luminous Blue Variables in particular, Laurent Drissen is Professor at the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval in Québec. He spent a significant part of his career working with students and engineers to develop the wide-field imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy technique in the visible range. This ultimately led to the construction of SITELLE, which was delivered to the Canada-France-Hawaii in the summer of 2015. In the SIGNALS collaboration, he is interested in the studying the impact of massive stars on their surroundings as well as supernova remnants. Laurent earned his PhD at Université de Montréal (1990) and spent five years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore during the early years of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Co-Principal Investigator
Philippe Amram
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Co-Principal Investigator
Pierre Martin
Dr. R. Pierre Martin is Professor of Astronomy, Director of the Educational Observatory, and the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He earned his MS and PhD in astrophysics at Université Laval in Québec, Canada. He has held post-doctoral fellowship positions at Steward Observatory in Arizona, and with the European Southern Observatory New Technology Telescope in Chile. Between 1997 and 2008, Dr. Martin was a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, and its Director of Science Operations for six years. Prior to joining UH Hilo, he was the Executive Director of the WIYN 3.5m telescope on Kitt Peak (Arizona) and a consultant for the Giant Magellan Telescope project. Dr. Martin fields of research include the chemical evolution of the Milky Way, massive star formation in galaxies, galaxy morphology, telescopes and instrumentation, astronomy from the Moon, and the optimization of the observational process for professional observatories.
SIGNALS Team Members
Participating Institutions
