Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, and a Faculty Affiliate at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute. After earning his Ph.D. in 2014 from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK, he was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and a North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. His work has stretched across the gravitational-wave spectrum, with a significant focus on using arrays of precisely timed pulsars to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. He is a member of both NANOGrav and the International Pulsar Timing Array.