World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Award Badge
Best Female Scientists
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Best Female Scientists

D-Index
111
Citations
52282
World Ranking
844
National Ranking
27

Physics

D-Index
116
Citations
57026
World Ranking
942
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For scientific leadership and meticulous work in instrumentation, in novel tests of General Relativity using multiple binary radio pulsars, and in the detailed study of numerous interesting radio pulsars systems using highprecision timing
  • 2017 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics, Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Ingrid H. Stairs is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, focusing on research within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly output comprises 411 publications, with significant work situated in the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, GNSS positioning and interference, and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the researcher include Emmanuel Fonseca, S. M. Ransom, Cherry Ng, V. M. Kaspi, and M. A. McLaughlin. Regular publication venues for their work feature arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University).

Selected recent papers from the scientist include the following:

  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The NANOGrav 11-year data set: High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy, 2020, Nature
  • The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Throughout their career, Ingrid H. Stairs has received recognition through awards such as the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018. The citation for the fellowship highlights their leadership and work in instrumentation, novel tests of General Relativity using multiple binary radio pulsars, and detailed studies involving high-precision timing of various radio pulsar systems.

Best Publications

  • A massive pulsar in a compact relativistic binary

    John Antoniadis;Paulo C. C. Freire;Norbert Wex;Thomas M. Tauris

  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background

  • Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar

    M. Kramer;I. H. Stairs;R. N. Manchester;M. A. McLaughlin;M. A. McLaughlin

  • Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

    H. Thankful Cromartie;Emmanuel Fonseca;Scott M. Ransom;Paul B. Demorest

  • A radio pulsar spinning at 716 Hz.

    Jason W. T. Hessels;Scott M. Ransom;Ingrid H. Stairs;Paulo C. C. Freire

  • A repeating fast radio burst

    L. G. Spitler;P. Scholz;J. W. T. Hessels;J. W. T. Hessels;S. Bogdanov

  • The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data

    M. C. Miller;F. K. Lamb;A. J. Dittmann;S. Bogdanov

  • The Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey - I. Observing and data analysis systems, discovery and timing of 100 pulsars

    R.N. Manchester;A.G. Lyne;F. Camilo;J.F. Bell

  • A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy

    Thomas E. Riley;Anna L. Watts;Paul S. Ray;Slavko Bogdanov

  • Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars

    M. A. McLaughlin;A. G. Lyne;D. R. Lorimer;M. Kramer

  • The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

    G. Hobbs;A. Archibald;Z. Arzoumanian;D. Backer

  • Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar

    A. Papitto;C. Ferrigno;E. Bozzo;N. Rea

  • Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey

    L. G. Spitler;J. M. Cordes;J. W. T. Hessels;D. R. Lorimer

  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

  • The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey - VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis

    D. R. Lorimer;D. R. Lorimer;A. J. Faulkner;A. G. Lyne;R. N. Manchester

  • A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

    Chime;B. C. Andersen;K. M. Bandura

  • A radio pulsar/x-ray binary link.

    Anne M. Archibald;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Scott M. Ransom;Victoria M. Kaspi

  • The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: High-precision Timing of 45 Millisecond Pulsars

    Zaven Arzoumanian;Adam Brazier;Sarah Burke-Spolaor;Sydney Chamberlin

  • Macromolecular organization of ATP synthase and complex I in whole mitochondria

    Unknown

  • The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background

    Zaven Arzoumanian;Paul T. Baker;Harsha Blumer;Bence Bécsy

Frequent Co-Authors

Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin West Virginia University
Scott M. Ransom
Scott M. Ransom National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Jason W. T. Hessels
Jason W. T. Hessels University of Amsterdam
Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Fernando Camilo
Fernando Camilo South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
Duncan R. Lorimer
Duncan R. Lorimer West Virginia University
Paulo C. C. Freire
Paulo C. C. Freire Max Planck Society
Richard N. Manchester
Richard N. Manchester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Victoria M. Kaspi
Victoria M. Kaspi McGill University
Andrew Lyne
Andrew Lyne University of Manchester

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Ingrid H. Stairs

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles