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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, and using the measurements of those waves to provide observational verification of the equations of state of neutron stars.

Education and career

Read grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and was motivated to study science out of a childhood love of science fiction. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia, with honours in a double major in mathematics and physics; she writes that she chose this combination of topics both for its difficulty and its flexibility in future directions. 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.

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.

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".

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

External links

• Home page
• Jocelyn Read publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• People from Calgary
• American women physicists
• Canadian women physicists
• University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
• California State University, Fullerton faculty
• Fellows of the American Physical Society
• 21st-century American women