Lectures on History of Science – Lecture 23: Gravitational-wave detector: An instrument for macroscopic quantum effects

Brief introduction to the speaker

Miu Haixing, received his bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2006 and PhD degree from the University of West Australia in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in California Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2013. He joined the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in 2014 and started teaching students there in 2016. Since 2021, he has been working in Department of Physics, Tsinghua University. His research interests include gravitational-wave detection and precise measurement of quantum particles.