Honors and Awards

University of Minnesota

  1. Distinguished McKnight University Professor, 2019.
  2. Taylor Award for Research, 2017. 
  3. McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2010.

External

  1. Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017.
  2. Co-recipient of the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, along with collaborators in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2017. 
  3. Co-recipient of The Group Achievement Award in Astronomy (awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society), along with collaborators in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2017.
  4. Co-recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, along with collaborators in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2016.
  5. Co-recipient of the Gruber Cosmology Prize, along with collaborators in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2016.
  6. R.A. Millikan Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2004-2007.

Membership in professional organizations:

  1. American Physics Society, 2002-present; Fellow since 2017.
  2. American Astronomical Society, 2007-present.
  3. International Astronomical Union, 2015-present.