Nergis Mavalvala

Nergis Mavalvala
Born1968 (age 57–58)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
NationalityPakistan
United States
Known forInterferometric gravitational waves, quantum measurement
Awards2013 Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science, MacArthur Fellows
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics and Quantum Physics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisAlignment issues in laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (1997)
Doctoral advisorRainer Weiss

Nergis Mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the Associate Head of the Department of Physics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Mavalvala is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.

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