Harrison Siegel received his B.S. in physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2019, and is currently a PhD student in the physics department at Columbia University working with Prof. Yuri Levin.
Harrison is currently interested in both noise calculations and data analysis for LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors. His recent work includes calculations of the noise introduced by semiconductor optics that are being considered for future gravitational wave detectors, as well as tests of general relativity through the analysis of black hole ringdowns detected by LIGO.
Harrison also has prior research experience in DAQ hardware and trigger system development in experimental particle physics, and experience in optics where he researched the propagation of diffracted vortex beams and possible applications of vortex beams in nuclear physics