Stephen R. Taylor

VIPER · Vanderbilt University

Group

VIPER — the Vanderbilt Initiative for Probes of Extreme Relativity — is an intensely collaborative group working on gravitational waves from the nanohertz to the millihertz band.

Full group information, including research highlights and news, is on the VIPER website.

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Matthew Miles

    NANOGrav PFC Postdoctoral Fellow

    2025–

  • Alexander Criswell

    EMIT Postdoctoral Fellow

    2024–

  • Maria Jose Bustamante Rosell

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    2024–

  • Robbie Rosati

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    2024–

  • Nima Laal

    VIPER Postdoctoral Fellow

    2023–

Graduate researchers

  • Sebastian Banaszak

    2025–

  • Levi Schult

    2022–

  • Polina Petrov

    2021–

  • Kyle Gersbach

    2021–

  • William Lamb

    2020–

  • Riddhi Patel

    Fisk–Vanderbilt Bridge Program

Undergraduate researchers

  • Tejas Mahesh

Former postdocs

  • Nihan Pol

    Now: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University

  • Maria Charisi

    Now: Assistant Professor, Washington State University & Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH

Affiliated faculty