MIT Kavli Institute Directory

Matthew J. Evans

Assistant Professor Faculty

Dr. Evans received his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in 1996 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 2002. His post-doctoral work started at Caltech, then moved to the European Gravitational Observatory to work on the Virgo project. In 2006 he began at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research scientist for the LIGO project, and finally in 2013 he took his current post of Assistant Professor in the department of Physics at MIT. His graduate and post-doctoral work has involved many aspects of ground-based gravitational wave instrument science, with special focus on modeling and control of kilometer-scale resonant interferometers.

Representative publications:

M. Evans, L. Barsotti, P. Fritschel, “A General Approach to Optomechanical Parametric Instabilities” Phys. Lett. A 374 (2010) 665-671

M. Evans, S. Ballmer, M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, G. Harry, and G. Ogin, “Thermo-optic noise in coated mirrors for high-precision optical measurements” Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 102003