Anne Murray Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of

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s and as one of the developers of

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, a scientific programming library for the

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Education and career

Archibald did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

, including internships involving

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and the

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of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at

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, she became a doctoral student of astrophysicist

Victoria Kaspi Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

at McGill, and won both the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics of the

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and the J.S. Plaskett Medal of the

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for her 2013 doctoral dissertation, ''The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038''. After postdoctoral research at

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and then at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, both in the Netherlands and supported by a Veni fellowship of the

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, she was a senior lecturer at Newcastle University from 2019 to 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Archibald, Anne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Canadian astronomers Canadian women astronomers University of Waterloo alumni McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Academics of Newcastle University