Whelan, John T.
Professor of Statistics
Program Faculty - PhD Program in Astrophysical Sciences and Technology (AST)
PI of RIT's group in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
co-chair, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Continuous Waves Observational Group
Education
- PhD in PhysicsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Background
1991: BA summa cum laude in Astronomy and with distinction in all subjects, Cornell University
1996: PhD in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (dissertation: Addressing the Issues of Quantum Gravity in Generalized Quantum Mechanics)
Postdocs:
- 1996-1998, University of Utah
- 1998-2000, Universität Bern
- 2000-2002, The University of Texas at Brownsville
2002-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Loyola University New Orleans
2006-2008: Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam
2014-2015 (sabbatical): Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover
See also curriculum vitæ and list of talks and posters presented.
Teaching:
See past courses.
