Meet the Team

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

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Co-Principal Investigator

Philippe Amram

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Co-Principal Investigator

Pierre Martin

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SIGNALS Team Members

  • Angela Adamo, Stockholm University
  • Alexandre Alarie, Université Laval
  • Pauline Barmby, University of Western Ontario
  • Dhruv Bisaria, Queen’s University
  • Alessandro Boselli, Aix-Marseille Université
  • Hope Boyce, McGill University
  • Fabio Bresolin, University of Hawaii Manoa
  • Martin Bureau, University of Oxford
  • Laurent Chemin, Universidad Andrés Bello
  • Roberto Cid Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Françoise Combes, Observatoire de Paris
  • Callie Crowder, CFHT
  • Lorenza Dellabruna, Stockholm University
  • Salvador Duarte Puertas, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
  • Fumi Egusa, University of Tokyo
  • Benoit Epinat, Aix-Marseille Université
  • David Fernández-Arenas, CFHT
  • Victor Francisco Ksoll, Heidelberg University
  • Ray Garner, Texas A&M University
  • Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
  • Veronica Gómez-Llanos, Instituto de Astronomía – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Dimitrios Gouliermis, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  • Kathryn Grasha, Australian National University
  • Clare Higgs, University of Victoria
  • Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Université de Montréal
  • I-Ting Ho, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  • Jorge Iglesias-Páramo, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
  • Gilles Joncas, Université Laval
  • Zacharie Kam, University of Ouagadougou
  • Robert C. Kennicutt, University of Arizona
  • Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg University
  • Sophia Lianou, University of Western Ontario
  • Lijie Liu, University of Oxford
  • Qing Liu, University of Toronto
  • André Luiz de Amorim, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Joseph Lyman, University of Warwick
  • Hugo Martel, Université Laval
  • Thomas Martin, Université Laval
  • Barbara Mazzilli-Ciraulo, Observatoire de Paris
  • Anna McLeod, Durham University
  • Iker Millán, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
  • Mercedes Mollá, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
  • Rieko Momose, National Tsing Hua University
  • Christophe Morisset, Instituto de Astronomía – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Ismaël Moumen, Université Laval
  • Hsi-An Pan, Tamkang University
  • Ashok Kumar Pati, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
  • Eric Pellegrini, Heidelberg University
  • Anne Pellerin, State University of New York
  • Isabel Pérez, Universidad de Granada
  • Andreea Petric, CFHT
  • Henri Michel Pierre Plana, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
  • Simon Prunet, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
  • Daniel Rahner, Heidelberg University
  • Carter Rhea, Université de Montréal
  • Tomas Ruiz-Lara, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Laura Sánchez-Menguiano, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Katia Słodkowski Clerici, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Kristine Spekkens, Royal Military College of Canada
  • Grażyna Stasińska, Observatoire de Paris
  • Marianne Takamiya, University of Hawaii Hilo
  • Natalia Vale Asari, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • José Manuel Vílchez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
  • Junfeng Wang, Xiamen University

Participating Institutions