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Fe McBride

Fe McBride — Eberly Postdoctoral Fellow — Postdoc
Office: 417A Davey Laboratory
Address: 525 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
Felicia.McBride@psu.edu
+1 814 865 8484
Fe McBride
Astronomy AMON CMA IGC

I am an Eberly Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics since 2019. I'm a member of the IGC and the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.My areas of research are in astroparticle physics and astronomy. I am interested in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and blazars, the most luminous persistent sources in the Universe. I focus on multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, but I have the most experience with X-ray observations. I have also worked on projects about the X-ray observability of Supernovae type Ia, X-ray binaries, pulsars, and peculiar AGN.

About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.