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Gabriela Gonzalez

, Physics and Astronomy Department

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About Gabriela

Gabriela González is a professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University searching for gravitational waves with the LIGO team.  She was born in Córdoba, Argentina, where she studied before pursuing her Ph.D. in Syracuse University, obtained in 1995. She was a staff scientist in the LIGO group at MIT, joined the faculty at Penn State in 1997 and moved to LSU in 2001.  She has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 1997, served as spokesperson in 2011-2017, and participated in the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves in 2016.  Her group works on LIGO instrument development, reducing noise sources, and data diagnostics.


Honors

2020 - Honorary Doctorate, University of Buenos Aires

2019 - Elected member, Argentinian National Academy of Sciences

2019 - Named Louisiana State University System Boyd Professor

2018 - Honorary Doctorate, University of Glasgow

2017 - Bruno Rossi prize, High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society (awarded to Gabriela Gonzalez and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

2017 - Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2017 - Elected member, US National Academy of Sciences

2017 - US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery (awarded to Peter Saulson, David Reitze and Gabriela Gonzalez)

2016 - One of “Ten people who mattered this year”, Nature Magazine

2010 - Elected Fellow, International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation

2007 - Edward A. Bouchet Award, American Physical Society

2007 - Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society


Education
Postdoc

LIGO group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 04/1995 - 08/1998

Ph.D.

Physics, Syracuse University, 05/1995

Master's

Physics, Syracuse University, 05/1994

Bachelor's

Physics, Cordoba National University, 12/1988

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