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My name is Gwen Eadie, and I am an Assistant Professor of Astrostatistics at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed between the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (DADDAA) and the Department of Statistical Sciences (DoSS). I am the founder and co-lead of the Astrostatistics Research Team (ART) at the University of Toronto. I am also the Chair of the American Astronomical Society's Working Group on Astroinformatics & Astrostatistics (2021-2024), and the Chair of the American Statistical Association's Astrostatistics Interest Group (2025).

Before arriving at Toronto, I was an eScience Institute, DIRAC Institute, and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. My mentors through the eScience Institute were Mario Juric (Astronomy), and Tyler McCormick (Statistics). More information about my student career (BSc, MSc, and PhD) can be found below.

McMaster University

PhD in Physics & Astronomy

I hold a PhD in Physics & Astronomy from McMaster University, in Hamilton, ON, Canada (August 2017). My doctoral supervisor was William Harris, expert in globular clusters and globular cluster populations, and creator of the Harris Globular Cluster Catalog.

During my PhD, I developed a hierarchical Bayesian model to estimate the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy. My PhD Dissertation was awarded the 2018 J.S. Plasket Medal by the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. You can find my 2017 PhD thesis here.

Queen's University

MSc in Physics, Engineering Physics, & Astronomy

I completed my Master's thesis under the co-supervision of Dr. Lawrence Widrow and Dr. Stephane Courteau. Using simulations, we investigated how mass estimates of galaxies might be affected by assumptions about velocity anisotropies. You can find my 2013 MSc thesis here.

Simon Fraser University

BSc in Physics, Minor in Publishing

I began my undergraduate studies in 2005 at Simon Fraser University (SFU), in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. I started as an English Major, but after taking some calculus courses and an introductory astronomy course, I changed my major to Physics! In 2010, I completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Minor in Publishing and was given the honour of being the BSc Convocation Speaker. As part of my undergraduate studies, I completed a BSc honours thesis under the supervision of Harvey Richer (UBC). Through the Publishing Minor at SFU I learned about publication design and print production, and became proficient in Adobe InDesign.