Professor Susan Scott
Susan Scott is Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics at The Australian National University, and is a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).
She is a General Relativity theorist working in the areas of singularity theory, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, and is a member of the team which directly detected gravitational waves in 2015. She spent four years on a Rhodes Fellowship in Oxford working with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Roger Penrose, who was also the 2006 recipient of the Dirac Medal.
Throughout her career, Professor Scott has been the recipient of a number of national and international prizes. In 2020, Professor Scott was one of four scientists — and the first female physicist — to be awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science for their pioneering work discovering gravitational waves opening a new window to the universe (Source: ABC News. Read full article).
Professor Scott is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, European Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Australian Institute of Physics, Institute of Physics and Australian Mathematical Society. She is an advocate for women in STEM.
