Karan Jani

Karan Jani (born May 18, 1988) is an Indian astrophysicist working on black holes, gravitational waves, and testing Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.[1][2][3] He is part of the LIGO team which led to the first observation of gravitational waves from binary black hole merger. He was one of the approximately 1200 authors of a paper on the subject in Physical Review D [4][5] He was also one of the 3 authors of a paper in Nature reporting a specific approach for observing an elusive class of black holes called Intermediate black holes.[6] He has worked at the LIGO Livingston Observatory in the US, the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.[7][8][5] He is a member of the Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations effort to build gravitational wave detector LIGO in India.[9][10]

Karan Jani
Born (1988-05-18) 18 May 1988
NationalityIndian
Known forBlack holes, Gravitational Waves
Websitehttp://www.karanjani.com/

Early life and education

Karan was born in Mumbai, India and did his K-12 schooling in Baroda, Gujarat. He attended Maharaja Sayajirao University before joining Penn State from where he obtained his degrees in physics, astronomy, astrophysics along with a minor in mathematics. He is currently a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has previously held undergraduate research positions at the Institute of Gravitation and Cosmos at Penn State, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

He was part of the delegation that met with the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in Washington, DC, for the signing of the MoU between National Science Foundation and Department of Atomic Energy to build a LIGO detector in India.[11]

Awards and recognition

See also

References
  1. "Vadodara man behind simulation of Einstein's gravitational waves | Vadodara News - Times of India". The Times of India. February 13, 2016. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  2. Vadukut, Sidin (2016-03-27). "Of LIGO, gravitational waves and a revolution in physics". Livemint. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  3. Gough, Evan (2020-02-05). "14% of all the Massive Stars in the Universe are Destined to Collide as Black Holes". Universe Today. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  4. Abbott, B. P.; et al. (2017-07-11). "Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO". Physical Review D. 96 (2): 022001. arXiv:1704.04628. Bibcode:2017PhRvD..96b2001A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022001. S2CID 201249161.
  5. "Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  6. Jani, Karan; Shoemaker, Deirdre; Cutler, Curt (March 2020). "Detectability of intermediate-mass black holes in multiband gravitational wave astronomy". Nature Astronomy. 4 (3): 260–265. arXiv:1908.04985. Bibcode:2020NatAs...4..260J. doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0932-7. ISSN 2397-3366. S2CID 199577340.
  7. Thomas, Maria. "An Indian's journey from A Brief History of Time to meeting Stephen Hawking". Quartz India. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  8. Tere, Tushar (March 15, 2018). "stephen hawking.: Karan Jani recalls lunch with Hawking". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  9. "LIGO India project to take off soon". The Times of India. July 26, 2016. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  10. "Astrophysicist, LIGO researcher Karan Jani proposes space research center at MSU". The Indian Express. 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  11. "Georgia Tech PhD Student Called To Meet India's Prime Minister". www.news.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  12. "30 Under 30 2017: Science". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  13. "Karan Jani named in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science". School of Physics. 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  14. Supitskiy, Vadim. "Karan Jani". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-17.


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