Nergis Mavalvala was born on 1968 and is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist.
15 Facts About Nergis Mavalvala
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Nergis Mavalvala is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the Dean of the university's School of Science.
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Nergis Mavalvala was previously the Associate Head of the university's Department of Physics.
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Nergis Mavalvala was born in Lahore, but primarily raised in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Nergis Mavalvala attended the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Karachi, where she received her O-Level and A-Level qualifications.
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Nergis Mavalvala moved to the United States in 1986 and enrolled at Wellesley College, where she received a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy in 1990.
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Nergis Mavalvala then joined Dr Rainer Weiss's group in the MIT physics department and received her PhD in 1997.
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Nergis Mavalvala is frequently questioned about how she was able to break through the barrier of gender roles and pursue a career of her choice.
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Nergis Mavalvala is often viewed as a role model for aspiring female scientists with roots in the Indian subcontinent.
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Nergis Mavalvala has extended family in Karachi and visited the city in 2010.
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Nergis Mavalvala focuses primarily on two fields of physics: Gravitational Waves Astrophysics and quantum measurement science.
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Nergis Mavalvala was among the team of scientists who, for the first time, observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.
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Nergis Mavalvala invited her to re-visit Pakistan, which she accepted.
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Nergis Mavalvala has worked on the development of exotic quantum states of light, and in particular the generation of light in squeezed coherent states.
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Nergis Mavalvala's group was the first to generate squeezed light using optomechanics at room temperature, compared to all previous optomechanical squeezed light sources that operated at cryogenic temperatures.