Laura Cadonati

Prof Laura Cadonati
Alma mater	Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields	Gravitational waves Astroparticle physics
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis	The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment and its Scintillator Containment Vessel (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Frank Calaprice
Website	cadonati.gatech.edu

Laura Cadonati is an American physicist who specializes in gravitational waves.

Career

Cadonati completed her PhD at Princeton University in 2001 with her thesis The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment and its Scintillator Containment Vessel. She was an associate professor in the physics department at University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving to the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015.^[1]

Cadonati has been a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration since 2002,^[2] and was involved in the first observations of gravitational waves in 2015.^[3][4]

In 2017 she became the first deputy spokesperson for LIGO^[5] and was widely quoted in the media as LIGO detected its third gravitational wave.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][excessive citations]}

Cadonati became associate dean for research in the College of Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021.^[15]

She is a member of the International Astronomical Union.^[16]

Awards and honors

• 2010 National Science Foundation CAREER award^[17]
• 2015 Fellow of the American Physical Society for "leadership of the gravitational-wave data analysis and astrophysics efforts of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, including work connecting numerical modeling of sources to observations with the LIGO, Virgo, and GEO detectors"^[18]
• 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award^[19]

References

1. "Laura Cadonati | Department of Physics | UMass Amherst". Physics Department at UMass Amherst.
2. "Laura Cadonati – Laura Cadonati – Gravitational Wave Astrophysics @ Georgia Tech". cadonati.gatech.edu.
3. "Gravitational Waves Observed". news.gatech.edu.
4. Wells, Myrydd (September 19, 2016). "These Georgia Tech physicists helped prove Einstein right".
5. "College of Sciences Professor Appointed to Top Role in Search for Gravitational Waves | News Center". news.gatech.edu.
6. "Scientists Make First Detection of Neutron Star Collision | News Center". news.gatech.edu.
7. "Seeing with new eyes: Gravitational waves | Science and Cocktails". www.scienceandcocktails.org. 7 February 2018.
8. "Scientists discover incredible origin of gold to herald 'new chapter in astrophysics'". Sky News. 17 October 2017.
9. Billings, Lee (16 October 2017). "Gravitational Wave Astronomers Hit Mother Lode". Scientific American.
10. Burgess, Matt (1 June 2017). "They've done it again! Ligo scientists find gravitational waves for the third time". Wired – via www.wired.co.uk.
11. Hannah Devlin (June 1, 2017). "Third gravitational wave detection gives hints on dark matter and black holes". The Guardian.
12. Jonathan Amos (June 1, 2017). "Gravitational waves: Third detection of deep space warping" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
13. William Harwood (3 June 2017). "Black holes crash together and make waves – Astronomy Now".
14. Nadia Drake (June 1, 2017). "Bizarre Black Holes Revealed by New Space-Time Ripples". Science. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021.
15. "Laura Cadonati Named Associate Dean for Research | School of Chemistry & Biochemistry". chemistry.gatech.edu. 8 July 2021.
16. "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org.
17. "Cadonati wins NSF Career grant | Department of Physics | UMass Amherst". Physics Department at UMass Amherst. 1 October 2010.
18. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
19. "Laura Cadonati: 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award | College of Sciences | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA". cos.gatech.edu. 2 April 2018.

External links

• Official website
• Laura Cadonati publications indexed by Google Scholar