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Jeffrey Scott Kissel was born in Rochester, New York, to Tom and Eileen Kissel. He graduated from Greece Athena High School in 2001, and received his bachelor of science in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. In the Fall of 2005, Jeff began his graduate studies at Louisiana State University. While there, he was awarded the LIGO Student Fellowship and became a visiting student researcher at the LIGO Livingston Observatory in 2007. Jeff graduated with a doctorate of philosophy in Physics & Astronomy in Fall of 2010, with a thesis titled "Calibrating and Improving the Sensitivity of the LIGO Detectors." He now works as a post-doctoral research associate at MIT continuing his research with the LIGO detectors.