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Membership

The IPTA is a consortium of consortia, currently comprised of APT, 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 (2025) the Steering Committee consists of:

• Paul Baker - NANOGrav
• Gosia Curyło - PPTA
• Megan DeCesar (Outgoing Chair) - NANOGrav
• Achamveedu Gopukumar - InPTA
• Maura McLaughlin - NANOGrav
• Marisa Geyer - APT
• Aditya Parthasarathy - EPTA
• Nataliya Porayko - EPTA
• Daniel Reardon (Chair) - PPTA
• Keitaro Takahashi - InPTA
• KJ Lee - Observer representing Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA)
• Ryan Shannon - Observer representing MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA)