J. S. Kissel

Jeffrey Kissel received the B.S. degree in astrophysics from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in physics and astronomy from Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA, USA, in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he continued to work for the LIGO project as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. In 2013, he began work at the LIGO Hanford Observatory as a Control Engineer. At LSU, MIT, and now at the Hanford Observatory, his research has focused on designing, modeling, and optimizing the performance of three generations of LIGO detectors, including work with the suspensions, seismic isolation, and interferometer sensing and control systems.