Wei-Tou+Ni+Bio+and+research+interests+on+GW

**Name **: Wei-Tou Ni
====**Education **: 1967 – 1972, California Institute of Technology, Ph.D in Physics and Mathematics ====

2017/02 till 2017/03, Visiting Professor, INFN Pisa
====2016/01 till 2016/12, Jinjiang Special-Invited Professor, School of Optical-Electrical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology ==== ====2001/08 till 2015/01, PI of “Research on Fundamental Experiment and Fundamental Phenomenologyin Physics” at National Tsing Hua University from National Science Council (NSC) ====

1972/09 till 1974/08, Research Associate, Department of Physics, Montana State University
====**Publications: ** Over 200 papers, articles and book chapters; Over 100 SCI papers with over 2000 SCI citations; //H-index// of SCI citations is 25; 7 //Physical Review Letters// (5 first author letters; 2 second author letters). ====

For last 3 years, over 20 SCI papers including 2 //Astrophysical J papers// and //3 Physics Letters A papers//.
====//Recent papers //: K. Kuroda, **W.-T. Ni** and W.-P. Pan, "Gravitational waves: classification, methods of detection, sensitivities, and sources,” //Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 24,// 1530031 (44 pages) (2015). ==== ====**W.-T. Ni **, "Gravitational wave detection in space", //Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25,// 1630001 (52 pages) (2016). ==== ====**W.-T. Ni **<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">, "Solar-system tests of the relativistic gravity", //Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25,// 1630003 (36 pages) (2016). ==== ====**<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">W.-T. Ni **<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">, S. Han, T. Jin, "Precision requirements and innovative manufacturing for ultrahigh precision laser interferometry of GW astronomy", //Proc. SPIE 10023//, 100230F (12 pages, November 24, 2016), arXiv://1610.03565//. ==== ====<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">C.-M. Chen, J. M. Nester, **W.-T. Ni**, "A brief history of GW research", //Chin. J. Phys. 55,// 142–169 (2017), //1610.08803//. ==== ====<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A, D. V. Di Virgilio, J. Belfi, **W.-T. Ni**, N. Beverini,G. Carelli, E. Maccioni and A. Porzio, "GINGER: A feasibility study," //Eur. Phys. J. Plus 132//, 157 (12 pages) (2017). ==== ====**<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Recent Book: W.-T. Ni **<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Editor)//One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity,////Vol. I & II (over 1300 pages), World Scientific, Singapore, 2017.// ==== ====//<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 11pt;">A brief summary of my current research interests and science topics to which I would like to contribute //<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 11pt;">: ====

====<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gravitational-Wave related activities: I am currently a KAGRA Science Collaboration (KSC) member working on gravitational wave (GW) sensitivities, GW sources, and GW detection schemes. My current research interests are GW sensitivities, GW sources and using GW observations to test general relativity and its alternatives over all the spectral bands from below 1 aHz (beyond Hubble-frequency) band to above 1 THz (ultra-high frequency) band. More specifically, I am interested in astrophysical and primordial GW backgrounds and their detectability; remnant Population III BH seeds background; stellar and galactic confusion backgrounds. For testing general relativity and its alternatives, I am interested in constraining/measuring the GW propagation velocity and ‘graviton’ mass/interaction range; testing pseudoscalar gravity and inflation; testing ‘Chern-Simons’ theories; testing massive gravity theories and bigravitational theories; testing MOND-type theories; testing higher-dimensional gravity theories, etc. ====

====<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 11pt;">My recent activities: working on Zhao-Shan underground GW experiment and study AMIGO (Astrodynamical Middle-frequency Interferometric Gravitational wave Observatory). ====