Victoria Kaspi

I am a professor of physics at McGill University. My research centres on observational studies of neutron stars. I use radio and X-ray telescopes to study pulsars - rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars.

Specific projects my research group is currently working on include:

• Searching for radio pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts using the CHIME Telescope, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, in support of the NANOGrav collaboration which aims to detect gravitatational radiation from distant supermassive black holes.
• X-ray observations of magnetars and high-magnetic field radio using NASA's X-ray missions Swift, NuSTAR, Chandra and ESA's X-ray mission XMM-Newton, in order to understand the overall neutron star 'zoo'.
• Developing pulsar and fast radio transient instrumentation and algorithms for the upcoming CHIME telescope, currently being built in Penticton, British Columbia.