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 Pennsyl ...

. His research interests are in

gravitational wave astronomy Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Gravitational waves are minute distortions or ripples in spacetime caused by the acceleration ...

. He is a Fellow of the

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(2002) , a member of the

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, the

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, and the

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. 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 2024 his h index is 89, with 56,583 refereed citations. As of November 2014 his tori index is 33.5, and his 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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