Prof. Bruce Allen

Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Head of the department Observational Relativity and Cosmology

Honorary Professor of Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

Personal Data

Date of Birth: May 11, 1959
Nationality: American

Education

1986-1987: Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon, France
1985-1986: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University, USA
1983-1985: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
1980-1984: Ph.D. in Gravitation and Cosmology, Cambridge University, England (Supervisor: Stephen Hawking)
1976-1980: B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (Supervisor: Rainer Weiss)

Academic Appointments

Since 2008: Honorary Professor of Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Since 2007: Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover
Since 2007: Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
1997-2006: Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
1992-1997: Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
1989-1992: Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
1987-1989: Research Assistant Professor, Tufts University, USA

Scientific awards/honours/memberships

2020: Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science
2017: Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society (shared with the LIGO team)
2017: Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society (shared with the LIGO team)
2017: Princess of Asturias Award (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
2016: Lower Saxony State Award (shared with A. Buonanno and K. Danzmann)
2016: Special Breakthrough Prize (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration) 
2016: Gruber Prize (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
2005: Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
2004: Elected Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK
2002-2003: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2001-2006: Member, Editorial Board, Classical and Quantum Gravity
1997-2018: Member, Executive Committee, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
1997-2000: Member, NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Mission definition team
1997: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Graduate School Research Award
1995-1997: Member, Executive Committee, LIGO Research Community
1990: First prize, Gravity Research Foundation, USA
1987-2018: Approximately 10M USD research funding from the National Science Foundation
1981: Knight Prize, Cambridge University, England
1980-1983: Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University, England
1980-1985: NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
1980-1982: Churchill Scholar, Cambridge University, England (declined)
1980: Phi Beta Kappa, MIT, USA