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Timothy Kovachy is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University, where his group uses atom interferometry to make precision measurements of gravitational and inertial forces, with applications ranging from tests of fundamental physics to gravitational wave detection.
Kovachy concentrated in physics and mathematics at Harvard College, graduating in 2009. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University in 2016, where his doctoral work developed new techniques for precision atom interferometry and applied them to fundamental tests of gravity and quantum mechanics. He is a member of the MAGIS-100 collaboration, which is building a 100-meter atom interferometer designed to serve as a prototype gravitational wave detector and dark matter search instrument.
His honors include a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering and the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations, both awarded in 2020, and a Hertz Fellowship beginning in 2009.
In his free time, Tim enjoys traveling and SCUBA diving.
