Nergis Mavalvala

Nergis Mavalvala received a B.A. (1990) from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. (1997) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to her appointment to the faculty of the Department of Physics at M.I.T. in 2002, she was a postdoctoral fellow (1997­–2000) and research scientist (2000–2002) at the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.