Professor

David McClelland

FAA

David McClelland
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In 2016, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, opening up a new window for astronomy and cosmology. David McClelland was a vital contributor to this success as Australia’s leading audio-band gravitational wave scientist and Chair of the Instrument Science/Advanced Detector program in the 1000-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He led the ANU team that played a crucial role in designing, installing and commissioning Advanced LIGO’s acquisition system, which brings the interferometers into operation. His pioneering quantum science experiments that beat the previous low-frequency limit for squeezing light by three orders of magnitude were also essential for improving gravitational wave detection sensitivity.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 205 OPTICAL PHYSICS
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510102 Astronomical instrumentation
  • 5108 QUANTUM PHYSICS

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Instrumentation
  • Optics
  • Quantum Optics
  • Gravitational Waves
  • Physics

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