Bruce Allen (physicist)

Bruce Allen (physicist)

Bruce Allen (born May 11 1959) is an American physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for gravitational physics in Hannover Germany and leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He is also a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

He has done research work on models of the very early universe (inflationary cosmology, cosmic strings). Allen currently leads a research group working on the detection of gravitational waves. Allen's research work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation since 1987.

Education/Positions

*1980 B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (advisor: Rainer Weiss)
*1984 PhD. in Gravitation and Cosmology, Cambridge University, England (advisor: Stephen Hawking)
*1983-1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara (Physics Department)
*1985-1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University (Physics Department)
*1986-1987 Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon, France
*1987-1989 Research Assistant Professor, Tufts University
*1989-1992 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*1992-1997 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*1997-2007 Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*2007-"present" Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*2007-"present" Director, Department of Observational Relativity and Cosmology, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany
*2008-"present" Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hanover

Visiting Appointments

*1994 Six months, Isaac Newton Mathematical Institute, Cambridge, England
*1995 Six months, Caltech Relativity Group
*1997 One year, Caltech LIGO Project
*1999 Six months, Caltech LIGO Project
*2000-5 Few months/year, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany

Awards

*1980 Phi Beta Kappa, MIT
*1980-5 NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
*1980-2 Churchill Scholarship (declined)
*1980-2 Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University
*1981 Knight Prize, Cambridge University
*1990 First Prize, Gravity Research Foundation
*1997 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Graduate School Research Award
*2002-3 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
*2004 Elected Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
*2005 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society

External links

* [http://www.phys.uwm.edu/people/faculty/ballen.html/ Bruce Allen faculty page] at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
* [http://www.aei.mpg.de/english/research/teams/observationalRelativity/index.html Bruce Allen's page at the Albert Einstein Institute]


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