About

Connor Stone, in a nutshell.

I am a Rubin Fellow at the University of Toronto studying cosmology using supernovae in Rubin survey data. I am approaching the problem in a fully Bayesian framework to address the selection function and challenges of covariant photometric redshift, classification, and distance measurements in these data.

Previously I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Montréal with an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and a CITA National Fellowship. My work focused on astrostatistics, astronomical image processing, and strong gravitational lensing. In my PhD at Queen’s University I developed a Bayesian technique to measure the intrinsic diversity in galaxy populations.

In my infinite spare time I like to do astrophotography, science outreach, hiking, D&D, and travel the world. I have some examples of my astrophotography and outreach activities on this site. My latest major project is raising my son Orion, with my wife Jessica.