Gabriela González

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Gabriela González.

I. Gabriela González (born February 24, 1965 in Córdoba ) is an Argentine-US-American physicist who deals with gravitational wave detectors and was the spokesperson for LIGO from 2011 to March 2017 . She is a professor at Louisiana State University .

Gonzalez studied physics at the University of Cordoba in Argentina with a degree (licentiate) in 1988 and received his doctorate in 1995 with Peter Saulson at Syracuse University . The thesis dealt with the application of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and measurements of Brownian motion (noise) in a torsional pendulum. This also led to corresponding work on noise in the laser interferometers for gravitational wave detection. From 1995 she was part of the LIGO project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Center for Space Research), from 1997 as a permanent member of LIGO. In 1998 she became an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University and in 2001 at Louisiana State University , where she became an associate professor in 2004 and a professor in 2008.

She was one of the four LIGO representatives who were present at the official press conference in 2016 for the announcement of the direct detection of gravitational waves (alongside Kip Thorne , David Reitze , Rainer Weiss ).

In 2007 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2016 she received the Jesse W. Beams Award and in 2007 the Edward A. Bouchet Award (given by the APS for minorities). In 2017 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and received the Bruno Rossi Prize with the LIGO team . In 2019 she received the Petrie Prize Lecture of the Canadian Astronomical Association (CASCA).

She is a US citizen. Gonzalez is married to the gravitational physicist Jorge Pullin , who also teaches at LSU.

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  1. ↑ The astrophysicist and director of the National Science Foundation France A. Córdova, which is funding the project, was also present .
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SURNAME González, Gabriela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba