Rana X. Adhikari

Rana X. Adhikari
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forExperimental physics of gravitational wave detection, LIGO-India, quantum metrology, intelligent control, noise reduction
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisSensitivity and Noise Analysis of 4 km Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antennae (2004)
Doctoral advisor
Websitecaltechexperimentalgravity.github.io

Rana X. Adhikari (born 1974) is an American experimental physicist.[1] He is a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)[2] and an associate faculty member of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR).[3][4]

Adhikari works on the experimental physics of gravitational wave detection and is among the scientists responsible for the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) that discovered gravitational waves in 2015.[5][6] He, along with Lisa Barsotti and Matt Evans from MIT, received the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2019 for research on current and future earth-based gravitational wave detectors.[7] His research focus is on the areas of precision measurement related to surpassing fundamental physical limits to discover new phenomena related to gravity, quantum mechanics, and the true nature of space and time.[3]

Adhikari is actively involved in the LIGO-India project, which aims to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India.[6] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society[8] and a member of Optica (formerly known as Optical Society of America).[9] Since 2019 he has been a member of the Infosys Prize jury for physical sciences.[10]

  1. ^ "Rana Adhikari". Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.
  2. ^ "Rana Adhikari | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy". pma.caltech.edu. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Rana Adhikari - CV". caltechexperimentalgravity.github.io.
  4. ^ "Associates". International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
  5. ^ Clavin, Whitney (October 17, 2018). "Rana Adhikari and Maksym Radziwill Honored with 2019 New Horizons Prizes". caltech.edu.
  6. ^ a b "Rana Adhikari awarded the New Horizons Prize". International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
  7. ^ "Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Rana Adhikari". breakthroughprize.org.
  8. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society Physics.
  9. ^ Adhikari, Rana (2009). "Next Generation Interferometers for Gravitational Wave Astronomy". Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest. pp. JTuA1. doi:10.1364/FIO.2009.JTuA1. ISBN 978-1-55752-878-0.
  10. ^ "Infosys Prize Physical Sciences Jury". Infosys Science Foundation.