Ingrid Stairs

Ingrid Stairs is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on Astronomy & Astrophysics, particularly Radio Astronomy, with an emphasis on Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts. She is involved in large-scale pulsar surveys using the Arecibo and Green Bank Telescopes, and she contributes to the NANOGrav collaboration to detect gravitational waves. Stairs is also part of a team developing a powerful Fast Radio Burst detector for the CHIME telescope. Her work includes studying binary pulsar evolution, pulsar instrumentation, and polarimetry. She has held various research and academic positions, including Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow roles, and has been affiliated with institutions such as Princeton University and the NRAO-Green Bank.

Ingrid Stairs is a physicist specializing in pulsars, neutron stars, relativity, and radio astronomy. Her research focuses on the study of pulsars and their role in testing general relativity, with an emphasis on relativistic Shapiro delay measurements and the analysis of massive millisecond pulsars. She has contributed significantly to the NANOGrav project, which investigates gravitational-wave backgrounds and searches for signals from new physics. Her work includes the analysis of X-ray and radio data to determine the properties of neutron stars and their binary systems. Stairs has also explored transient radio bursts and their connection to magnetars, further advancing our understanding of high-energy astrophysical phenomena.