Susan M. Scott
Susan Marjorie Scott FAA is an Australian physicist whose work concerns general relativity, gravitational singularities, and black holes. She is a professor of quantum science at the Australian National University (ANU).[1][2]
At ANU, she is the leader of the General Relativity Theory and Data Analysis Group, part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that has discovered gravity waves from collisions involving black holes and neutron stars,[3][4] and is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Council.[5]
Education and career
Scott studied mathematics at Monash University and has a doctorate in mathematical physics from the University of Adelaide. She spent four years working with Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and was a Rhodes Visiting Fellow at Somerville College, before joining the Australian National University faculty in 1998.[6] She is a Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).[7]
Recognition
Scott was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.[6] In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.[8] In 2020, she became the first female physicist to win the Prime Minister's Prize for Science.[9]
References
- ^ "Professor Susan Scott", People, ANU Research School of Physics, retrieved 2020-07-28
- ^ "People", The Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, ANU, retrieved 2020-08-09
- ^ Crew, Bec (22 February 2018), "The ripple that caused a universal wave", Australia Unlimited
- ^ Strickland, Ashley (24 August 2019), Black hole gobbles up neutron star, causing ripples in space and time, CNN
- ^ "Susan Scott", LIGO member roster, retrieved 2020-07-28
- ^ a b "Professor Susan Scott FAA", Experts, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2020-07-28
- ^ "Chief Investigators", ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), retrieved 2020-10-13
- ^ APS Fellows Archive, retrieved 2020-10-09
- ^ Weule, Genelle (28 October 2020), "Prime Minister's Prize for Science awarded to gravitational wave scientists", ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 2020-10-29
External links
- Susan M. Scott publications indexed by Google Scholar
