Maura McLaughlin

West Virginia University
Department of Physics
PO Box 6415
Morgantown, WV 26506
USA

B.S. The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2001

Hello! As a faculty member at WVU, my main research interests involve studying neutron stars and their environments using involve radio, X-ray and gamma-ray observations. Neutron stars are amazing physical laboratories for general relativity, studies of the interstellar medium, high-energy particle and plasma physics and studies of stellar evolution.
WVU is uniquely placed for students to use the Green Bank Telescope in nearby Green Bank, West Virginia, the largest fully steerable dish in the world. Some of the other instruments used in WVU research are radio telescopes such as Arecibo, Parkes, VLA, ATCA, and GMRT, in addition to X-ray satellites such as XMM and Chandra. Some research involves developing techniques for next-generation telescopes such as the SKA and GLAST.

The links on the left offer some general information on pulsars and some links to papers and projects. Please contact me if you are interested in undergraduate research or graduate study in our group!

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