Gabriela González
Gabriela Ines González, (born 24 February 1965) 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. Career. González 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 five LIGO scientists present for the announcement that the first direct gravitational wave observation had been detected in September 2015. Awards. González was elected fellow of the  Institute of Physics (2004), the American Physical Society (2007), and the American Astronomical Society (2020). She won the Bouchet Award in 2007, the Bruno Rossi Prize in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery in 2017, and the Petrie Prize Lecture in 2019. González was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Personal life. González is married to Jorge Pullin, the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University.