Welcome to Assistant Professor Kate Dooley, the latest addition to the Physics and Astronomy Department and the LIGO Team. Kate holds a PhD in physics from the University of Florida and comes to UM after a post-doc at the GEO600 gravitational-wave detector in Hannover, Germany, and a post-doc at Caltech. Kate is an experimental physicist working within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Her expertise is in laser physics, optics and design of advanced gravitational-wave detectors. Welcome, Kate!