Bio: J.D is currently a PhD at APC from November 2022. He is also an Engineer of “Corps des Mines”. Before he obtained a master in quantum technologies & fundamental physics at École polytechnique. He was classed first out of 556 students in the final ranking, thus receiving the “Pierre-Simon Laplace Medal” from Académie des Sciences. He also obtained the “Grand Prize for Best Research Internship”, de l’École polytechnique, awarded for outstanding results obtained during the research internship in the Virgo Collaboration. He is visiting the MIT LIGO lab from October 2023 to October 2024.
Bio: Y.Z. is a postdoc at AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory since December 2022. He obtained his master degree at the Beijing Normal University (China) and then he did a PhD at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. His thesis, about quantum noise reduction for gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, defended in 2020, was awarded the SOKENDAI prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis. Then he obtained a postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) during which he continued to contribute to the research on quantum noise reduction and on the development of the GW detector KAGRA. He was appointed sub-chief of the KAGRA quantum noise reduction group. A detailed CV is here.
Bio: After obtaining his Master's degree at Observatoire de Paris, he briefly worked on improving ArianeGroup rockets before starting a PhD at the APC laboratory. His thesis, focusing on the experimental validation of interferometric performance for the LISA space mission, was defended in 2023. After securing funding from the Labex UnivEarths, he is investigating the feasibility of a lunar gravitational wave detector based on methods used in Virgo and LISA. He is also part of the Einstein Telescope collaboration.
Bio: M.T.H. is currently a CNRS research engineer at the laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) where he is working part-time on optical bench design for the gravitational-wave observatory Virgo, and part-time on the development of frequency dependent squeezing within the Quantum-FRESCO project. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Florida (United States) where he designed and built an optical testbed for the measurement of thermal noise in dielectric mirrors. After his Ph.D. he took a post-doctoral research position at LNCMI (Toulouse, France) where he developed an ultra-sensitive cavity-enhanced polarimeter for use in the vacuum magnetic birefringence experiment, BMV. After Toulouse, he was awarded a DESY research fellowship where he worked on the early commissioning of the shining-light-through-walls axion-like particle search, ALPS (Hamburg, Germany). He returned to France as a Marie-Curie Fellow at SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris on the development of an ultra-stable laser via spectral hole burning, notably on noise modeling and low-temperature thermal line-shift measurements, before joining the gravitational-wave group at APC.
Bio: F.L. is currently a master's student at Beijing Normal University(BNU). Learned about gravitational wave detection length sensing and control, have some experience in optical experiments. Participated in research on Lunar GW detecors. Currently doing an internship at APC to learn about the theory and experiments on quantum squeezing technique.
Research Area: Quantum noise reduction for gravitational wave detection
Bio: I.A. is currently a first year Phd student, Isander-Louis Ahrend graduated from the Paris-Saclay university in 2024. He has worked on quantum squeezing at the GEO600 gravitational wave detector and is currently doing his Phd at APC on adapting this technique to future gravitational wave detectors.
