Dr. Victoria Kaspi

Biography

Victoria Kaspi is an influential astrophysicist at McGill University, recognized for her groundbreaking work on neutron stars and associated phenomena. Her research focuses primarily on observational studies utilizing radio and X-ray telescopes to analyze pulsars, which are rapidly rotating and highly magnetized neutron stars. Her current projects involve searching for radio pulsars and investigating Fast Radio Bursts using advanced facilities such as the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, Arecibo Observatory, and Green Bank Telescope. She plays a pivotal role in the NANOGrav collaboration, which aims to detect gravitational waves from distant supermassive black holes. Furthermore, she conducts X-ray observations of magnetars using NASA's space missions, including Swift, NuSTAR, and Chandra, as well as ESA's XMM-Newton, contributing to a deeper understanding of the diverse characteristics within the neutron star population. Kaspi is also developing instrumentation and algorithms for the CHIME telescope.

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