Joan Mary Centrella is an American astrophysicist known for her research on computer simulations of general relativity, gravity waves, gravitational lenses, and binary black holes.
[1][2] She is the former deputy director of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and is Executive in Residence for Science and Technology Policy at West Virginia University.
[3] Centrella graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1975.
She moved to the Goddard Space Flight Center in 2001, and became deputy director in 2010.
[3] Centrella was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998.