Gabriela González, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gabriela González

Argentinian physicist

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1965

Place of Birth: Córdoba, Córdoba Province, Argentina

Profession: astronomer, professor, physicist

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gabriela González, (born 24 February 1965 in Cordoba, Argentina) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University and was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017.
She has published several papers on Brownian motion as a limit to the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, and has an interest in data analysis for gravitational-wave astronomy.In February 2016, she was one of four LIGO scientists present for the announcement that the first direct gravitational wave observation had been detected in September 2015.
González was elected to membership in the U.
S.
National Academy of Sciences in May, 2017.On 23 Oct 2019 Gabriela delivered a public lecture at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada of great interest, concerning her work and others at Ligo and the history of its various exciting discoveries.
She has a great skill at getting information across, at times to a lay public, and is an excellent promoter of women in science.
The lecture was recorded as "Music of the Universe" and can be seen on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9OwIWe01w&feature=push-lbss&attr_tag=gfU6OlHImtLqtecI%3A6 .
A viewing is highly recommended.