Anne Archibald

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Anne M. Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of pulsars and as one of the developers of SciPy, a scientific programming library for the Python programming language. She is a senior lecturer in astronomy at Newcastle University in the UK.

Education and career[]

Archibald did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Waterloo, including internships involving computer graphics and the image analysis of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at McGill University, she became a doctoral student of astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi at McGill,[1] and won both the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and the J.S. Plaskett Medal of the Canadian Astronomical Society for her 2013 doctoral dissertation, The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038.[1][2]

After postdoctoral research at ASTRON and then at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, both in the Netherlands and supported by a Veni fellowship of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,[1][3][4] she became a senior lecturer at Newcastle University in 2019.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c 2015 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics Recipient: Anne Archibald, McGill University, retrieved 2020-09-24
  2. ^ 2015 Plaskett Medal, Canadian Astronomical Society, retrieved 2020-09-24
  3. ^ a b "Anne M. Archibald", ORCID, retrieved 2020-09-24
  4. ^ Veni fellowship for Anne Archibald, ASTRON, 17 July 2015, retrieved 2020-09-24

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