Advisory Board

	Board Chair Feryal Özel University of Arizona Award winning fellow of the American Physical Society and joint faculty at the Black Hole Initiative Center (Harvard University). She is an expert in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena.
	Board Member Dave DeBoer University of California - Berkeley Research Astronomer at the Radio Astronomy Lab. He is an expert in Instrumentation used to explore the radio Universe.
	Board Member Daniel S. Katz University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is an expert in the development and use of advanced cyber-infrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scales.
	Board Member Jocelyn Read California State University Fullerton Professor. Her research focuses on connecting the nuclear physics of neutron-star astrophysics with observations of gravitational waves.
	Board Member Deirdre Shoemaker The University of Texas at Austin Professor and the director of the Center for Gravitational Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests center on black holes and gravitational waves, understanding these and other aspects of strong gravity and how it reveals itself in the universe.