Pakistan-born quantum astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala is named the new dean of the MIT School of Science, one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
According to MIT News, Nergis Mavalvala will become the new dean from September 1,2020 and will succeed Mr. Michael Sipser, who will return to the faculty as the Donner Professor of Mathematics after six years of service.
Mavalvala is famous for her pioneering work in gravitational-wave detection, which she conducted as a leading member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
"She has received numerous awards and honours for her research and teaching, and since 2015 has been the associate head of the Department of Physics. Mavalvala will be the first woman to serve as dean in the School of Science."
Nergis Mavalvala was born in Parsi family of Karachi, She received her early education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary school,Karachi.As a teenager,she later moved to the United States to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts.Mavalvala did her BA at Wellesley College in Physics and Astronomy in 1990 and a PhD in physics in 1997 from MIT.
She also received MacArthur Foundation Award in 2010. Later in 2016, she became the part of a team of scientists that discovered gravitational waves, a new gate for studying the cosmos.
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