Susan M. Scott
Susan Marjorie Scott is an Australian physicist whose work concerns general relativity, gravitational singularities, and black holes. She is a professor of quantum science at the Australian National University.
At ANU, she is the leader of the General Relativity Theory and Data Analysis Group, part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that has discovered gravity waves from collisions involving black holes and neutron stars, and is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Council.Education and career
Scott studied mathematics at Monash University and has a doctorate in mathematicsl physics from the University of Adelaide. She spent four years working with Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the Australian National University faculty in 1998.Recognition
Scott was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.
