Eileen Gonzales
Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Francisco State University
Research Focus
About Eileen
Dr. Eileen Gonzales is an Assitant Professor at San Franciso State University in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. Her research focuses on understanding the fundamental parameters and atmospheres of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and directly imaged exoplanets through observational and theoretical-based techniques. Using atmospheric retrievals, her current work aims to understand cloud properties as well as key chemical processes shaping the formation and evolution of directly imaged exoplanets and low-gravity brown dwarfs. Prior to coming to SF State, she was a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in the Department of Astronomy. She received her PhD at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City. She is also a co-founder and director of Black In Physics a non-profit organization dedicated to not only celebrating Black physicists and our contributions but also to reveal a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like.
Honors
2023 - SFSU CEETL Equity Fellow
2023 - SFSU Faculty Hub Fellow
2022 - Cornell University Postdoc Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership
2021 - NASA ExoExplorer
2020 - 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow
2019 - Ford Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention
2019 - Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship In the Sciences
2018 - ASNY Graduate Student Prize
2018 - Beth Brown Memorial Award for best oral presentation in astronomy at the NSBP 2018 Conference
AAS Chambliss Honorable Mention
CUNY Science Scholar
LSSTC Data Science Fellow
NIGMS RISE Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
Center for Astronomy and Planetary Science, Cornell University, 09/2020 - 08/2023
Ph.D.
Physics, CUNY Graduate Center, 09/2020
Master's
Physics, CUNY Graduate Center, 06/2019
Physics, Hunter College, 02/2019
Physics, San Francisco State University, 01/2015
Bachelor's
Michigan State University, 05/2010
