About Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo was raised in Montreal, Canada, and is originally half Chilean, half Czech. After obtaining bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Montreal, where she focused on the kinematical analysis of three Sculptor Group galaxies, she started her PhD studies at Cambridge University in 2009. There she had the chance to work with one of the leading experts in black hole physics, Professor Andy Fabian, in a very stimulating research group. One of the main accomplishments of her PhD work was to study the properties of jetted outflows generated by supermassive black holes in the central galaxies of clusters located very far away. These galaxies are the largest galaxies in the universe, and should therefore contain the largest supermassive black holes. As soon as she finished her PhD, Julie was awarded a prestigious Einstein Fellowship from NASA, which she took to Stanford University. She recently accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Montreal, and will be moving back to Canada in July 2014.