Vaishali Adya

Vaishali Adya is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics. She obtained her PhD from the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Hannover in May 2018. Her work focuses on gravitational wave detector technologies, including squeezed light development and control systems for angular stabilization of optics. She has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2013 and has worked on general commissioning at LIGO Hanford.

Research Interests:

• Design and development of squeezed light sources at 1 micron and 2 micron wavelengths
• Improving high-frequency sensitivity in gravitational wave detectors
• Designing control schemes for ground-based gravitational wave detectors
• Optical simulations for future detector architectures

Key Affiliations:

• Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics (ANU)
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration