Margot Hensler Phelps

After graduating from CU Margot Hensler Phelps (Astro) worked at Caltech, helping install the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La. During her time on the team (three members of whom won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics), she patented an optics cleaning process. She then completed her doctorate in gravitational  wave research at the University of Glasgow. In March she will begin a post-doc position at the Albert Einstein Gravitational Wave Institute in Hanford, Germany.