Team Members

  • 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.