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 as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the Australian National University faculty in 1998.

Recognition

Scott was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.[6]

References
  1. "Professor Susan Scott", People, ANU Research School of Physics, retrieved 2020-07-28
  2. "People | The Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics". cga.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. Crew, Bec (22 February 2018), "The ripple that caused a universal wave", Australia Unlimited
  4. Strickland, Ashley (24 August 2019), Black hole gobbles up neutron star, causing ripples in space and time, CNN
  5. "Susan Scott", LIGO member roster, retrieved 2020-07-28
  6. "Professor Susan Scott FAA", Experts, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2020-07-28
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