Laura Cadonati

Short CV

Laura Cadonati is a Professor in the School of Physics, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Sciences and past Director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Tech. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and a past member of the Borexino and the DarkSide collaborations.  Dr. Cadonati was deputy spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and chair of the LIGO Data Analysis Council.  She received a Laurea in Physics at the University of Milano, Italy, and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. She has been Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Selected Awards

individual:

• 2026 American Physical Society Board of Directors
• 2025 American Physical Society General Councilor
• 2018 Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award
• 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Consortium Distinguished Lecturer
• 2015 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2010 National Science Foundation CAREER award

shared with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration:

• 2017 and 2016 Physics World Breakthrough of the Year
• 2017 Bruno Rossi Prize
• 2017 UK Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award
• 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
• 2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize
• 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Research Interests

Dr. Cadonati‘s research interests include gravitational waves and particle astrophysics, with particular focus on the detection, characterization and astrophysical interpretation of short-duration gravitational wave signals that are produced by cataclysmic astrophysical events such as the collisions of black holes or core collapse supernovae. 

Selected Publications

Laura Cadonati’s Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/9NTB4v