Gabriela Gonzalez PhD

Dr. Gabriela González is an experimental physicist who has successfully led the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) for the past five years. LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, and it consists of two detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. The LSC is a group of more than 1000 scientists worldwide who have joined together in the search for gravitational waves. Their successful detection of a wave created by two colliding black holes, more than 1.3 Billion light years away, has been hailed across the scientific community as a historical turning point as significant and game-changing as the moment Galileo first pointed his telescope to the sky.