THE RICHARDSON LAB

Jonathan Richardson

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Jonathan's research interests are in precision tests of gravity, observational cosmology, and probing the nature of black holes. In support of these goals, his group's work is aimed at overcoming major technological limitations in gravitational wave detection. He is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and is the optical Mode Sensing and Control System (MSC) lead for the Cosmic Explorer Project. He received a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from Yale University in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago in 2016. He was a LIGO Laboratory postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2021. Jonathan joined the UC Riverside faculty in 2021.