Ingrid Stairs

Ingrid Stairs
Stairs in 2019
Born
Alma materPrinceton University
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics (astrophysics)
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Academic advisorsJoseph Taylor

Ingrid Stairs is a Canadian astronomer currently based at the University of British Columbia. She studies pulsars and their companions as a way to study binary pulsar evolution, pulsar instrumentation and polarimetry, and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). She was awarded the 2017 Rutherford Memorial Medal for physics of the Royal Society of Canada,[1][2] and was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018.[3]

  1. ^ "Past award winners". Royal Society of Canada. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  2. ^ White, Jacob. "Ground breaking work on pulsars earns UBC astrophysicist prestigious prize". The Ubyssey. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  3. ^ "Dr. Ingrid Stairs elected Fellow of American Physical Society | UBC Physics & Astronomy". www.phas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-24.