Deirdre Marie Shoemaker (born 1971)[1] is an American astrophysicist whose research studies the mergers of binary black holes through both simulation and observation.
Shoemaker majored in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1994.
Next, she did postdoctoral research with Lee Samuel Finn and Jorge Pullin in the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Pennsylvania State University and with Saul Teukolsky in the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University.
[3] She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and chairs the Waveform Working Group of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Consortium.
[5] Shoemaker was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013, after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, "for her leading role in the investigation of dynamical and binary black hole space-times and their observational signatures".