Sukanta Bose
Sukanta Bose is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, since 2001, and served as its chair (interim) from 2010 to 2012. He has taught various courses in Physics and Astronomy across all levels. He conducts research in gravitation, cosmology and, especially, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. He and his group members worked with the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations to make the first direct observations of gravitational waves from a remote collision of two black holes in 2015. He also worked as the Project Coordinator of LIGO-India from 2019 - 2022 – a USA-India project that is building a LIGO detector in India to complement the two detectors in the USA. Bose is an NSF CAREER awardee and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
