Breakthrough Prize
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016
$3 million prize shared between LIGO founders Ronald W. P. Drever, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss and 1012 contributors to the discovery.
Gruber Prize
Gruber Cosmology Prize 2016
Awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Ronald Drever, and the entire LIGO team for pursuing a vision to observe the universe in gravitational waves, leading to a first detection that emanated from the collision of two black holes.
Science Award of Hannover
Wissenschaftspreis des Freundeskreises der Leibniz Universität Hannover 2010
Most prestigious prize the Leibniz Universität Hannover awards to young
researchers for outstanding scientific work, awarded each second
year.
Honorable mention, GWIC Thesis Prize
GWIC (Gravitational Wave International Committee) Thesis Prize 2010
Annual prize for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis based on research in gravitational waves.
Poster Prize
Poster Prize at the LSC-Virgo meeting 2010
Prize for the best student/post-doc poster at
the LSC-Virgo meeting.