Marco Cavaglia is Professor of Physics at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. Before joining the faculty at Missouri S&T, he was tenured professor at the University of Mississippi. Previously, he was research scientist at Tufts University, the Albert Einstein Institut in Germany, the University of Beira Interior in Portugal and MIT, and was Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK. During his career, Cavaglia authored over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His scientific interests are in gravitational physics, astrophysics, theoretical physics, and education and public outreach (EPO). Cavaglia has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) since 2007. He has more than 20 years experience in management and administration of scientific units, having served as Assistant Spokesperson of the LSC (2012-17), founding chair of the LSC EPO Group (2008-12) and founding chair of the LSC diversity group (2012-15), senior member of the LIGO Academic Affairs Committee of the LSC (2018-) and co-chair of the LSC Burst Source Working Group (2019-). Cavaglia shares with his LSC colleagues several other recognitions, including the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize for the detection of gravitational waves and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He is a member of APS and IAU.