Education:

• Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 2001-2005
• M.Sc., Astrophysics Collaborative Program, University of Toronto, 2000-2001
• B.Sc. (Hons.), Astrophysics, University of Calgary, 1996-2000

Research Experience:

• 2006-2008, Postdoctoral Research Associate of C. W. Hellaby, University of Cape Town:
  created C code for the Metric of the Cosmos Project, obtained new white/black hole spacetimes
• 2001-2005, Ph.D. thesis, Advised by C. C. Dyer, University of Toronto: Cosmological Black Holes as Models of Cosmological Inhomogeneities
  obtained new cosmological black hole solutions, used them to model shear in the universe's expansion
• 2000-2002, DDO IVC Project (graduate student collaboration), University of Toronto:
  performed spectroscopy at David Dunlap Observatory, analysed spectra to constrain IVC distances
• 2000-2001, M.Sc. project, Advised by C. C. Dyer, University of Toronto: Mapping the Anisotropy of the Hubble Constant
  developed C program to compute contour map of Hubble constant values on the sky
• Summer 2000, Undergraduate Research Assistant of C. C. Dyer , University of Toronto:
  created C code for gravitational lensing problems, assisted in computation of a Swiss cheese universe
• Summer 1999, Undergraduate Research Assistant of E. F. Milone, University of Calgary:
  modelled 8000 transit events for a project searching for planets in globular cluster 47 Tuc

Publications:

• McClure, M. L., K. Anderson, & K. Bardahl. ``Cosmological Versions of Vaidya's Radiating Stellar Exterior, an Accelerating Reference Frame, and Kinnersley's Photon Rocket.'' arXiv manuscript (pdf)
• McClure, M. L., & C. Hellaby. ``Determining the Metric of the Cosmos: Stability, Accuracy, and Consistency'' Physical Review D, 78, 044005, 2008. arXiv manuscript (pdf)
• McClure, M. L., K. Anderson, & K. Bardahl. ``Non-isolated Dynamic Black Holes and White Holes'' Physical Review D, 77, 104008, 2008. arXiv manuscript (pdf)
• McClure, M. L., & C. C. Dyer. ``Anisotropy in the Hubble Constant as Observed in the HST Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project Results'' New Astronomy 12: 533-543, 2007. arXiv
• McClure, M. L., & C. C. Dyer. ``Matching Radiation-Dominated and Matter-Dominated Einstein-de Sitter Universes and an Application for Primordial Black Holes in Evolving Cosmological Backgrounds'' General Relativity and Gravitation 38: 1347-1354, 2006. manuscript (pdf)
• McClure, M. L., & C. C. Dyer. ``Asymptotically Einstein-de Sitter Cosmological Black Holes and the Problem of Energy Conditions'' Classical and Quantum Gravity 23: 1971-1987, 2006. manuscript (pdf)
• McClure, M. L., & C. C. Dyer. ``Observed Anisotropy in the Universe's Expansion Rate'' Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 2: Measuring and Modeling the Universe, ed. W. L. Freedman, Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, 5 pages, 2004.
• Milone, E. F., M. D. Williams, C. R. Stagg, M. L. McClure, B. Desnoyers Winmill, T. Brown, D. Charbonneau, R. L. Gilliland, G. W. Henry, J. Kallrath, G. W. Marcy, Dirk Terrell, & W. van Hamme. ``Simulation and Modeling of Transit Eclipses by Planets" International Astronomical Union Symposia 202: 90-92, 2004.
• Burns, C. R., C. Tycner, M. McClure, K. Blindert, R. McNaughton, M. D. Gladders, & A. Attard. ``The DDO IVC Distance Project: Survey Description and the Distance to G139.6+47.6'' The Astronomical Journal 125: 2584-2589, 2003. arXiv
• Milone, E. F., M. D. Williams, M. McClure, J. Kallrath, & S. J. Schiller. ``Simulations of Transits in the Stars of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae" International Astronomical Union Symposia 200P: 182-183, 2000.

Funding:

• I gratefully acknowledge funding I've received for my education and research from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the UCT Cosmology Group, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, the Province of Ontario, Zonta International, the Walter C. Sumner Foundation, the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, the friends and colleagues of O. George Fritz, and the family of Art Sparrow.