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Peter Shawhan is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland since 2006. His research focuses on gravitational wave detection, including contributions to LIGO's historic 2015 black hole merger discovery. He also explores laboratory gravity experiments and high-energy astrophysics missions like BurstCube.
Shawhan earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago (1999), followed by postdoctoral work at Caltech (2000-2006) establishing LIGO operations. He is affiliated with the Joint Space-Science Institute.
His research interests span gravitational wave astrophysics, time-domain astronomy, and multimessenger observations. Notable projects include developing BurstCube, a CubeSat for detecting GRB counterparts to gravitational wave events, and analyzing data from KAGRA and GEO600 detectors.
Shawhan has received numerous awards including the APS Fellowship (2021), Kirwan Research Prize (2018), and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher honor (2020). His work bridges observational astronomy with theoretical physics, advancing tests of general relativity and cosmic source characterization.
He has contributed to major collaborations like the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and led studies on gravitational wave backgrounds, pulsar emissions, and dark matter searches using gravitational wave data.
