Prof. Matthew Evans, member of the MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatory
I talked with Dr. Matthew Evans about his work with LIGO, the group researching gravitational waves that gained the 2017 nobel prize for physics.
Dr. Evans is designing new technologies to improve advanced LIGO, a laser interferometer that detects gravitational waves. In 2019 he was awarded the New Horizons in physics prize for research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves. I talked to him about how he accidentally got into the field of astrophysics, and his work in the LIGO group.