Guenakh Mitselmakher


Guenakh Mitselmakher is a Russian-American physicist currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Florida. His interests are gravitational waves and experimental particle physics. On September 14, 2015, he contributed to the discovery of GW150914 using his developed conductor, Coherent WaveBurst. He was Elected as Fellow to the American Physical Society in 2001.

Education

He earned his Ph.D at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1974. Before joining UFL in 1995, he worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1994-1998.