Lee Samuel Finn is an American astrophysicist, former Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and former Director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. His research interests are in

gravitational wave astronomy Gravitational-wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves (minute distortions of spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity) to collect observational data about ...

. He is a Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

(2002) , a member of the

American Astronomical Society The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the adv ...

, the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

, and the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

. Lee Samuel Finn was the founding Field Chief Editor of the peer-reviewed journal ''Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences'', and Specialty Chief Editor for its Cosmology section, in which roles he served from the journal's founding until mid-2018. According to

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, as of November 2014 his

h index The ''h''-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. The ''h''-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as winn ...

is 55, with 3492 refereed citations; his tori index is 33.5, and the riq index is 193.

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personal webapge at the Pennsylvania State Universitypersonal webpage at the gravitational wave astronomy groupFinn group homepage
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