LING SUN

Research Fellow, Australian National University
Chinese, Australia
Ling is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University, and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. She works on gravitational-wave detections and analyses, studying fundamental physics from gravitational-wave observations. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 2018 and worked at the California Institute of Technology (USA) as a Postdoctoral Scholar before joining the Australian National University in 2020. She achieved her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering (Communication and Information Systems) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and worked in IBM China System and Technology Lab as a software engineer and project manager before starting her PhD in 2014. She is passionate about hiking, running, and photography.