Jess McIver | |
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| Born | New York, United States |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BSc, Physics and Journalism, Syracuse University MSc, PhD, 2015, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thesis | The impact of terrestrial noise on the detectability and reconstruction of gravitational wave signals from core-collapse supernovae (2015) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Astronomy, Physics |
| Sub-discipline | Gravitational wave astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Jess McIver is an American astronomer. She is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia. McIver is a member of LIGO, one of the recipients of the Science 2017 Breakthrough of the Year.