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Scott Ransom is a tenured Research Professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Virginia (UVA) and a staff astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia. His research focuses on pulsars, including their use in studying gravitational waves (via NANOGrav), binary/millisecond pulsar systems in globular clusters, and fast radio bursts (FRBs). He is a founding member and former Chair (2018-2022) of NANOGrav and collaborates with the CHIME/FRB project.
Education: PhD in Astronomy from Harvard University (advisor not specified), postdoctoral research at McGill University, and undergraduate studies at the United States Military Academy (West Point). He has served in the U.S. Army as a Field Artillery officer.
Key contributions include developing the PRESTO pulsar search software and advancing radio astronomy techniques. He teaches UVA's graduate Radio Astronomy course (Astro5340) and actively contributes to open-source tools like Python-based pulsar analysis frameworks. His work bridges instrumentation, computational methods, and fundamental physics in neutron star studies.
Labs/Teams: NANOGrav collaboration, CHIME/FRB collaboration, and NRAO-based projects leveraging the Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
