New Member

New Member in the Cosmology group

November 1, 2023

Observational Cosmology Group

Martine Lokken has just joined the Observational Cosmology group as Postdoc researcher.

Martine Lokken earned her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. Martine’s research interests include the anisotropic superclustering of gas, galaxies, and dark matter; cross-correlations between large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background data; and preparing simulations for comparison with large cosmological data sets.

Welcome, Martine!

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