B. J. J. Slagmolen

Bram J. J. Slagmolen received the Ph.D. degree in physics from The Australian National University, Canberra, in 2005, investigating thermal noise in macroscopic mechanical oscillators. As a Project Scientist, he set up the first 80 m long base line suspended interferometer in Australia, designed for investigating the thermal behavior of optics with high circulating optical powers in such interferometers. He is currently a Research Fellow at The Australian National University working on advanced optical metrology system for sensing and control of complex optical configurations. The focus of this work is in collaboration with the U.S. LIGO project developing metrology hardware for advanced gravitational wave detectors.