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Vaishali Adya is an Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in the Division of Quantum Nano Physics. She obtained her PhD from the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover in 2018, focusing on the design and testing of control schemes for future generation gravitational wave detectors like the planned Einstein Telescope. Additionally, she was a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, where she worked on general commissioning, detector modeling, and alignment sensing schemes to control angular positions of suspended optics for the detector during her four-month stint at LIGO Hanford in 2013. After her PhD, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University, concentrating on the development of squeezed light technology for future gravitational wave detectors, as well as optical modeling for the NEMO project, which is a concept for a kilohertz band gravitational wave detector. At KTH, her work focuses predominantly on the generation and characterization of integrated squeezed light sources for applications in gravitational wave detection, biosensing, and quantum communication through her research group named SQuiCS. Adya's research is funded by the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and the Swedish Research Council. She is also actively involved in leadership roles within National Quantum Communication Infrastructure Sweden.
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