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Scott, Susan

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Astrophysicist and Theoretical physicist

Summary

Susan Scott is an astrophysicist internationally recognised for her research in gravitational waves. Her work focuses on gravitational waves, mathematical aspects of general relativity, and cosmology and extragalactic astronomy. Having joined the Australian National University in 1998, Scott became Professor of Theoretical Physics in 2009. She leads the University's General Relativity Theory and Data Analysis Group, which is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. In 2020 Scott was awarded the Dirac Medal from the University of New South Wales and the Australian Institute of Physics, and was joint winner, with colleagues David Blair, David McClelland and Peter Veitch, of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science.

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"Susan Scott has made ground-breaking discoveries in the fields of general relativity and gravitational wave science. Her theoretical work includes advancing our understanding of both singularities and the global structure of space-time. Professor Scott has also been a pioneer in the analysis of astrophysical signatures in gravitational wave experiments." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/susan-scott 11/7/2022]

Chronology

1979
Education - BSc (hons), Monash University
1986 - 1989
Award - Rhodes Fellowship, University of Oxford
1991
Education - PhD, University of Adelaide
1992 - 1998
Award - ARC Australian Research Fellow
1999 -
Award - Fellow, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
2004 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
2004 -
Award - Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
2009 -
Career position - Professor of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University
2016 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society
2016 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
2016
Award - Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence, Australian National University
2016
Award - Special Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics
2016
Award - Gruber Cosmology Prize, Gruber Foundation
2017 -
Career position - Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzgRAV)
2017
Award - Bruno Rossi Prize, American Astronomical Society
2017
Award - Einstein Medal, Einstein Society, Switzerland
2017
Award - Group Achievement Award in Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society
2017
Award - Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
2020 -
Award - Fellow, American Physical Society
2020 -
Award - Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales and Australian Institute of Physics
2020
Award - Prime Minister's Prize for Science (jointly)
2022 -
Award - Fellow, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG)
2022 -
Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Classical and quantum gravity
2022
Award - Blaise Pascal Medal, European Academy of Science
2023
Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (jointly with Nick Wormald), Australian Academy of Science

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