Szabolcs Marka
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Szabolcs Marka is leader of the Columbia Experimental Gravity Group in LIGO and a professor of physics at Columbia. He has received an NSF Career Award and a Grand Challenges Explorations Award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Marka graduated from Kossuth Lajos University in Hungary and received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.