Host Institution: EGO (European Gravitational Observatory), Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 1: Matthieu Gosselin
Year of birth: 1990
Gender: male
Study Project: Input optics components for the upgrade of the 2nd generation and 3rd generation Gravitational Wave detectors
Host Institution: Boostec, France
The Early Stage Researcher 2: Rudy Nahed
Year of birth: 1992
Gender: male
Study Project: Study and development of Silicon Carbide stray light control optical components for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
Host Institution: University of Glasgow, UK
The Early Stage Researcher 3: Zeno Tornasi
Year of birth: 1989
Gender: male
Study Project: Properties of materials for GW interferometer optics
Host Institution: Gooch & Housego, UK
The Early Stage Researcher 4: Grégoire Lacaille
Year of birth: 1992
Gender: male
Study Project: Adhesive-Free Bonding of Exotic Materials
Host Institution: University of Birmingham, UK
The Early Stage Researcher 5: Daniel Töyrä
Year of birth: 1986
Gender: male
Study Project: Computational modelling of advanced laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors
Host Institution: UNIPI (University of Pisa), Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 6: Jose M. González Castro
Year of birth: 1988
Gender: male
Study Project: Computer intensive simulation of optical systems and components
Host Institution: INFN, Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 7: Imran Khan
Year of birth: 1990
Gender: male
Study Project: Wave-front distortions simulation and correction
Host Institution: Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany
The Early Stage Researcher 8: Omar De Varona
Year of birth: 1986
Gender: male
Study Project: Dynamics of high power fibre amplifiers
Host Institution: Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
The Early Stage Researcher 9: Marina Trad Nery
Year of birth: 1987
Gender: female
Study Project: Power stabilization at and below the shot noise limit
Host Institution: Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
The Early Stage Researcher 10: Justus Schmidt
Year of birth: 1992
Gender: male
Study Project: Stabilization of high power fiber laser
Host Institution: INFN, Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 11: Shubhanshu Tiwari
Year of birth: 1989
Gender: male
Study Project: Data Analysis: Transients
Host Institution: INFN, Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 12: Gang Wang
Year of birth: 1985
Gender: male
Study Project: Data Analysis: Multi-Messenger
Host Institution: University of Birmingham, UK
The Early Stage Researcher 13: Serena Vinciguerra
Year of birth: 1989
Gender: female
Study Project: Studying neutron-star and black-hole binaries with gravitational waves
Host Institution: INFN, Italy
The Early Stage Researcher 14: Akshat Singhal
Year of birth: 1991
Gender: male
Study Project: Data Analysis: Continuous Wave