Jocelyn Read

Jocelyn Samantha Read is a Canadian physicist and associate professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton, known for her research on gravitational waves and neutron stars. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and is an author of research characterizing the gravitational waves caused by neutron star and black hole collisions,[1] and using the measurements of those waves to provide observational verification of the equations of state of neutron stars.[2]

Education and career

Read grew up in Calgary, Alberta,[3] and was motivated to study science out of a childhood love of science fiction.[4] She did her undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia, with honours in a double major in mathematics and physics;[3] she writes that she chose this combination of topics both for its difficulty and its flexibility in future directions.[4] She then went to the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where her 2008 doctoral dissertation, Neutron stars in compact binary systems: from the equation of state to gravitational radiation, was jointly supervised by John L. Friedman and Jolien Creighton.[4][5]

Before joining the California State University, Fullerton faculty in 2012, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and at the University of Mississippi.[3]

Recognition

In 2019, Read was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Gravitational Physics, "for contributions to the understanding of extreme matter within neutron stars, including its effects on gravitational-wave observations, and for the inclusive recruiting and mentoring of next generation gravitational-wave scientists".[6]

References
  1. CSUF Scientists Contribute to Detection of Second Neutron Star Collision: Gravitational Waves Observed From Merger With Unusually High Mass, California State University, Fullerton, 14 January 2020, retrieved 2020-08-03
  2. "Neutron star research gets more funding", Orange County Register, 13 August 2018
  3. About Jocelyn Read, California State University, Fullerton, retrieved 2020-08-03
  4. "Jocelyn Read", Humans of LIGO, 8 October 2019, retrieved 2020-08-03
  5. Jocelyn Read at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. APS Fellows Nominated by DGRAV: 2019, APS Division of Gravitational Physics, retrieved 2020-08-03
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