Michael McDonald

Professor McDonald is from Kingston, Ontario in Canada. He graduated from Queen’s University in Canada in 2005 with a Bachelors degree in Physics and in 2007 with a Masters of Science under the supervision of Prof. Stephane Courteau. He received a PhD from the University of Maryland in 2011, after working with Prof. Sylvain Veilleux on an emission-line study of giant elliptical galaxies. In 2012, Michael was named a Hubble postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.