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Peter Veitch

  • Professor, Chief Investigator
  • University of Adelaide


Professor Peter Veitch is the leader of the University of Adelaide node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and a member of the Optics & Photonics research group in the Department of Physics at the University of Adelaide.

He was a co-recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science 2020, was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2016 “for development of techniques essential to the successful high optical-power operation of gravitational wave detectors and contributions to Advanced LIGO”, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics in 2021.

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