David Reitze

LIGO Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

David Reitze is the Executive Director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory at Caltech and Research Professor at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he spent almost 20 years on the faculty of the University of Florida in the Physics Department. His research focuses on the development of ultrasensitive gravitational-wave detectors and gravitational-wave astronomy. Reitze was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optica, and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He currently serves on the National Academies Board on Physics and Astronomy in addition to the AURA Board of Directors.