{"id":8,"date":"2017-10-10T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/teams\/ultraluminousxray\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T07:32:46","slug":"team-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/teams\/ultraluminousxray\/team-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Tassos Fragos (PI)<\/strong> &#8211; DARK\/CTA, NBI, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<\/em>: 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.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Andreas Zezas (co-I)<\/strong> &#8211; University of Crete, Greece<\/em>: 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.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Antara Basu-Zych<\/strong> &#8211; GSFC, NASA, USA<\/em>: multi-wavelength studies of star-burst galaxies over cosmic history, star formation histories using multi-wavelength diagnostics, XRB formation and evolution, galaxy feedback.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Bret Lehmer<\/strong> &#8211; University of Arkansas, USA<\/em>: 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.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Ann Hornschmeier<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0GSFC, NASA, USA<\/em>: X-ray emission from star formation in galaxies at cosmological distances, Chief Scientist for NASA&#8217;s Physics of the Cosmos program, chair of the Starburst and Local Group working group for NuSTAR<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Andy Ptak<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0GSFC, NASA, USA<\/em>: 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.}<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Panayiotis Tzanavaris<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0GSFC, NASA, USA<\/em>: X-ray luminosity function of normal galaxies, star formation and AGN activity in Hickson Compact Groups of galaxies, X-ray binary populations in galaxies}<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Vicky Kalogera<\/strong> &#8211; CIERA, Northwestern University, USA<\/em>: analytical and computational population studies of compact object binaries, coalescing compact object binary rates for LIGO and LISA, physical parameter estimation from LIGO data.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Anrew King<\/strong> &#8211; University of Leicester, UK<\/em>: astrophysical accretion, particularly on to black holes, X-ray binaries, ULXs and gamma-ray bursters, accretion disc structure, binary stellar evolution, and galaxy evolution.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Andrei Mesinger<\/strong> &#8211; Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy<\/em>: \u00a0The dawn of the first astrophysical structures, feedback processes (radiative, chemical, mechanical),\u00a0astrophysics from the redshifted 21cm line, epoch of reionization.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Jeff Andrews<\/strong> &#8211; University of Crete, Greece<\/em>: Binary evolution, population synthesis studies, bayesian statistics, MCMC modeling, astrostatistics.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Mads S\u00f8rensen<\/strong> &#8211; University of Geneva, Switzerland<\/em>: Stellar and binary evolution, X-ray binary formation and evolution, pre-main sequence binary evolution.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Michael Zevin<\/strong> &#8211; CIERA, Northwestern University, USA<\/em>: Astrophysical parameter estimation of gravitational wave sources, statistical model comparison, machine learning, X-ray binary population modeling.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Konstantinos Kovlakas<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0University of Crete, Greece: Observations of ULX populations, galaxy catalogues, data mining, machine learning.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Konstantina Anastasopoulou<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; University of Crete, Greece: X-ray spectral modeling, spectral energy distributions of accreting compact objects and ULXs.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tassos Fragos (PI) &#8211; 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 &hellip; 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