People

UPAC - Dec 2024 (Missing: Sabine Winters, Andrea Cavallaro, Alex Fleuren)

dr. N.C.M. (Niels) Martens
Assistant Professor
Email: n.c.m.martens@uu.nl
UPAC Research Group Leader
COSMO-MASTER PI
Collaborations Focus Group Leader HPC ngEHT
Faculty Affiliate at Harvard's Black Hole Initiative
dr. A.E. (Antonio) Ferreiro de Aguiar
Researcher
Email:
COSMO-MASTER PostDoc
Philosophy of Inflation & Spin-2 Gravity
S.H. (Sanne) Vergouwen
PhD Candidate
Email: s.h.vergouwen@uu.nl
COSMO-MASTER PhD
Philosophy of Black Holes
Governance Task Force ngEHT
M.C. (Maura) Burke MSc
PhD Candidate
Email: m.c.burke@uu.nl
PhD Philosophy of the Multiverse
S.L.L. (sabine) Winters
PhD Candidate
Email: s.l.l.winters@uu.nl
PhD Imagination in Space Science

Luka Vinck
PhD Candidate University of Amsterdam
Emergence at all Scales Consortium PhD
Emergence of Time & Laws in Quantum Cosmology

Alex Fleuren
COSMO-MASTER collaborator on scalar-tensor theories
HPS & Maths Master thesis on inflation 2023-24

Luuk Kuiper
HPS Master Student
Email: COSMO-MASTER.assistant@uu.nl
COSMO-MASTER Research Assistant 2025-26

Duña van der Horst
HPS Master Student
Thesis Project on Astrophysical Realism

Anastasiia Lazutkina
Junior Descartes Fellow - University of Wuppertal
Galaxies as evidence in cosmology
Spring/Summer 2026

Upcoming

dr. Juliusz Doboszewski
Senior Descartes Fellow (Apr-June 2027) Jagiellonian University & Harvard
Black Holes

dr. Marco Forgione
Visiting COSMOS PostDoc University of Milan
Hubble Tension & Robustness

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Presentation of the UPAC group by Niels Martens, at the HPP-NL Workshop — Presentation of the UPAC Research Group at the HPP-NL Workshop