Victoria Kaspi is a Professor of Physics at McGill University, where she holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, and the Distinguished James McGill Chair.
She is the inaugural Director of the McGill Space Institute. She received a B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from McGill in 1989, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. From 1994-96, she held a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology. She was an Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT from 1997-2000, and joined McGill in 2000. Prof. Kaspi has used techniques of radio and X-ray astronomy to study rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars. She has done significant work involving radio pulsars and magnetars, the most highly magnetized objects known in the Universe. Since 2014, she has begun working on Fast Radio Bursts, a newly recognized astrophysical phenomenon involving few-millisecond radio bursts of unknown origin, and is presently the Principal Investigator on the CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project.
