Daryl Haggard

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at McGill University in the McGill Space Institute. I study the Galactic center and Sgr A*, EM counterparts to gravitational wave sources, accreting compact objects, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, and multi-wavelength and time domain surveys.University of Washington, Seattle, WA Ph.D., Astronomy, August 2010 M.Sc., Astronomy, December 2006 “The Fraction of X-ray-active Galaxies in the Field from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey” Supervised by Scott F. Anderson (UW) and Paul J. Green (CfA) San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA M.Sc, Physics, August 2004 “High-Resolution X-ray & Optical Imaging of Binary Populations in ω Centauri” Supervised by Adrienne M. Cool St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM B.A., Philosophy & Mathematics with Honors, May 1995 McGill University/McGill Space Institute, Montr´eal, QC, Canada Assistant Professor of Physics (2015 – present) Amherst College, Amherst, MA Assistant Professor of Astronomy (2014 – 2015) Northwestern University, Evanston, IL CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow (2010 – 2014) NSF GK-12 Mentor (2010 – 2013) University of Washington, Seattle, WA NASA Jenkins Predoctoral Fellow (2005 – 2008) Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy (2003 – 2010) San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellow (2001 – 2002) Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics & Astronomy (2000 – 2003) Fawcette Technical Publications, Palo Alto, CA International Conference Marketing Manager (1997 – 1999) Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, Sichuan, China Visiting Faculty, International Economic and Trade Law School (1995 – 1996)

Research Interest

AGN and their host galaxies, Galactic Center and Sgr A*, EM counterparts to GW sources, accretion onto compact objects, multi-wavelength and time domain surveys