Tassos Fragos (PI) – DARK/CTA, NBI, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: modeling of binary stars, and especially XRBs, studies of the evolutionary history of Galactic XRBs, population synthesis of low-mass and high-mass XRBs, both in the local Universe and across cosmic time.
Andreas Zezas (co-I) – University of Crete, Greece: discrete X-ray sources in other galaxies (XRBs, and supernova remnants), induced star-formation and nuclear activity in interacting galaxies, cosmological evolution of galaxies and their populations of XRBs.
Antara Basu-Zych – GSFC, NASA, USA: multi-wavelength studies of star-burst galaxies over cosmic history, star formation histories using multi-wavelength diagnostics, XRB formation and evolution, galaxy feedback.
Bret Lehmer – University of Arkansas, USA: extragalactic multiwavelength surveys of normal and active galaxies, formation and evolution of XRB and compact object populations in galaxies, coevolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes.
Ann Hornschmeier – GSFC, NASA, USA: X-ray emission from star formation in galaxies at cosmological distances, Chief Scientist for NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos program, chair of the Starburst and Local Group working group for NuSTAR
Andy Ptak – GSFC, NASA, USA: X-ray properties of starburst galaxies and their evolution over time, contribution of galaxies to the X-ray background, pipeline-processing of large data sets.}
Panayiotis Tzanavaris – GSFC, NASA, USA: X-ray luminosity function of normal galaxies, star formation and AGN activity in Hickson Compact Groups of galaxies, X-ray binary populations in galaxies}
Vicky Kalogera – CIERA, Northwestern University, USA: analytical and computational population studies of compact object binaries, coalescing compact object binary rates for LIGO and LISA, physical parameter estimation from LIGO data.
Anrew King – University of Leicester, UK: astrophysical accretion, particularly on to black holes, X-ray binaries, ULXs and gamma-ray bursters, accretion disc structure, binary stellar evolution, and galaxy evolution.
Andrei Mesinger – Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy: The dawn of the first astrophysical structures, feedback processes (radiative, chemical, mechanical), astrophysics from the redshifted 21cm line, epoch of reionization.
Jeff Andrews – University of Crete, Greece: Binary evolution, population synthesis studies, bayesian statistics, MCMC modeling, astrostatistics.
Mads Sørensen – University of Geneva, Switzerland: Stellar and binary evolution, X-ray binary formation and evolution, pre-main sequence binary evolution.
Michael Zevin – CIERA, Northwestern University, USA: Astrophysical parameter estimation of gravitational wave sources, statistical model comparison, machine learning, X-ray binary population modeling.
Konstantinos Kovlakas – University of Crete, Greece: Observations of ULX populations, galaxy catalogues, data mining, machine learning.
Konstantina Anastasopoulou – University of Crete, Greece: X-ray spectral modeling, spectral energy distributions of accreting compact objects and ULXs.