Jocelyn Samantha Read is a Canadian physicist and 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]
Jocelyn Read | |
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| Born | |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of British Columbia (BSc) University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (PhD) |
| Thesis | Neutron stars in compact binary systems: From the equation of state to gravitational radiation (2008) |
| Academic advisors | John L. Friedman, Jolien Creighton |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Physics, Astronomy |
| Institutions | California State University, Fullerton |