Bruce Allen
Curriculum Vitae
Bruce Allen received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Rainer Weiss in 1980. In 1984, he completed his doctorate under Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge on the subject of gravitation and cosmology. From 1983 to 1987, he was a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at Tufts University and at the Paris Observatory in Meudon. In 1987, he became a research assistant professor at Tufts University and in 1989 transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he became a professor of physics in 1997. In 2007, he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover branch. Since then, he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and, since 2008, an honorary professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover.
Research Interests
Bruce Allen's division focuses on the direct, observable consequences of general relativity. This includes not only the search for and analysis of gravitational-wave signals in laser interferometer and pulsar timing array data, but also the operation and development of the distributed computing project Einstein@Home, which searches for weak radio, gamma-ray, and gravitational-wave signals from rotating neutron stars.
Selected Awards
Bruce Allen received a number of honours, including a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001 and the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2016. He is also the recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize (2016) and the Gruber Prize for Cosmology (2016).