Jess McIver

Jess McIver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on gravitational wave astrophysics, with an emphasis on multi-messenger astronomy, data science, machine learning, and the characterization of large-scale physics instrumentation. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2007 and an associate member of the LISA Consortium since 2017. Her work contributes to searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars and the estimation of properties of gravitational wave sources such as merging black holes and neutron stars. McIver's research is foundational to astrophysics results through international LIGO detector characterization and data calibration efforts.

Jess McIver is a researcher at the University of British Columbia specializing in gravitational waves and multi-messenger astrophysics. Her work focuses on the observation and analysis of gravitational wave events, such as binary black hole and neutron star mergers, using instruments like LIGO and Virgo. She has contributed to significant discoveries, including the first observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral (GW170817) and the detection of binary black hole mergers. Her research explores the implications of these events for testing general relativity, measuring the Hubble constant, and understanding the properties of compact objects.