The role of the OzGrav Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is to provide the Centre with independent scientific expertise, advice, and experience from established national centres and leading international laboratories regarding the OzGrav Research Program. The SAC is chaired by Professor James (Jim) Hough, an international leader in the search for gravitational waves.
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Prof James Hough
Chair, OzGrav Scientific Advisory Committee Professor, University of Glasgow Director, Institute of Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow Prof Hough is a British physicist and an international leader in the search for gravitational waves. |
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Prof Takaaki Kajita
Professor, University of Tokyo, Director, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research Prof Kajita is a Japanese physicist who jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that elusive neutrino particles have mass. |
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Prof Vicky Kalogera
E. O. Haven Professor, Northwestern University Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) Prof Kalogera is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration and a leading theorist in the study of gravitational waves, the emission of X-rays from compact binary objects and the coalescence of neutron-star binaries. |
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Prof Barry Barish
Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology Prof Barish is a leading expert on gravitational waves, and his leadership and advocacy to the National Science Foundation about the need for LIGO played a key role in securing the funds for its construction. |
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Dr Joan Centrella
Deputy Director , Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Dr Centrella is an astrophysicist who builds numerical laboratories to probe the depths of extreme gravity and the early history of the universe. She currently chairs the Advisory Board for the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) |
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Dr Stuart Anderson
Research Manager - LIGO, California Institute of Technology Dr Anderson used the Arecibo radio telescope to reveal that globular clusters contained vast numbers of radio pulsars including a relativistic binary pulsar that closely resembled the Hulse-Taylor pulsar as part of his PhD from Caltech. Since then he has been one of the key players in establishing and maintaining the clusters and pipelines that have discovered gravitational waves. Research website |
