Newswise — Jolien Creighton is a professor of physics at UW-Milwaukee where he joined the faculty in 2002. He has been chair of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration’s internal review committee for the burst group from 2005 to 2009 and the LIGO/LSC Algorithm Library librarian since 2000. He has received six awards from the National Science Foundation and his research is currently supported by two of them.

He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Waterloo in 1996 and spent three years at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scholar. In 1999, he came to UW-Milwaukee to work as a research associate. [email protected], 414-229-2907