Matthew Evans

Prof. Evans received a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1996 and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 2002. He worked on LIGO and Virgo until 2007, and then came to MIT as a research scientist working on the Advanced LIGO design. Prof. Evans moved to his current position at MIT in January 2013, at which point his research group began work on new technologies to improved Advanced LIGO sensitivity. He currently leads the US effort to develop a next-generation gravitational-wave detector known as Cosmic Explorer.