Laura Cadonati is an American physicist who specializes in gravitational waves.
Cadonati completed her PhD at Princeton University in 2001 with her thesis The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment and its Scintillator Containment Vessel.
She was an associate professor in the physics department at University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving to the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015.
[1] Cadonati has been a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration since 2002,[2] and was involved in the first observations of gravitational waves in 2015.
[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][excessive citations] Cadonati became associate dean for research in the College of Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021.