Anne Murray Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of pulsars and as one of the developers of

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, a scientific programming library for the

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. She is a senior lecturer in astronomy at Newcastle University in the UK.

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 research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

, including internships involving

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and the image analysis of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...

, 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 American Physical Society 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 became a senior lecturer at Newcastle University in 2019.

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