Rana Adhikari
Rana Adhikari (* 1974 ) is an Indian-American physicist who works with gravitational wave detectors . He is part of the LIGO collaboration and is a Principal Researcher at the MIT- Kavli Institute.
Adhikari studied physics from 1996 at the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in 1998 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 2004 under Rainer Weiss with a thesis on gravitational wave detectors (Sensitivity and noise analysis of 4 km laser interferometric gravitational wave antennae ) . As a post-doctoral student he was at LIGO at Caltech , where he became an assistant professor in 2006 and a professor in 2012. He has also been Adjunct Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research since 2012 .
He deals with the technology and limitations of Ligo-type gravitational wave detectors and satellite experiments. He also deals with precision measurements of gravitation at short distances and macroscopic limits of quantum mechanics in optomechanics (at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, IQIM, des Caltech).
For 2019 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for research on current and future earth-based gravitational wave detectors (laudatory speech).
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| SURNAME | Adhikari, Rana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |