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My name is Maggie Huber (they/them), I am a graduate student working with faculty member Dr. Julie Comerford and postdoc Dr. Joe Simon. I am an associate member of NANOGrav in the Astro Working Group and have a background in gravitational wave research as part of the Detector Characterization team at LIGO. I did my undergraduate research on X-ray absorbing quasars with Dr. Joel Bregman at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.ÌýÌý

My research at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ is investigating the discrepancy between scaling relations such as M-Mbulge and M-σ that harness host galaxy observables to estimate supermassive black hole masses. I am using a sample of 500,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to get a comprehensive and statistically meaningful picture of how black hole mass estimates compare to each other. I aim to highlight how the choice of scaling relation impacts scientific results from the gravitational wave background, cosmological simulations, and galaxy evolution models.Ìý

As a former educator at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit, I became interested in public outreach, education beyond the classroom, and uplifting junior scientists of all ages and backgrounds. I hope to continue teaching both at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and after I graduate.Ìý