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Membership

The IPTA is a consortium of consortia, currently comprised of NANOGrav, the EPTA, InPTA, and the PPTA. There are also affiliated observers from other timing arrays that plan eventually to join. The Steering Committee is composed of two members from each constituent PTA collaboration, plus affiliated observers.

Currently (2024) the Steering Committee consists of:

• Stanislav Babak (Outgoing Chair) - EPTA
• Megan DeCesar (Chair) - NANOGrav
• Achamveedu Gopukumar - InPTA
• Maura McLaughlin - NANOGrav
• Aditya Parthasarathy - EPTA
• Ryan Shannon - MeerTIME
• Keitaro Takahashi - InPTA
• Xingjiang Zhu - PPTA
• Andrew Zic - PPTA
• Marisa Geyer - Observer representing African PTA
• KJ Lee - Observer representing Chinese PTA