Gabriela Ines González, (born 24 February 1965) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University and was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017. Biography Gabriela González was born on February 24, 1965, in Cordoba, Argentina. She is the daughter of Dora Trembinsky, a professor of mathematics, and Pedro González, a doctor in Economic Sciences. González completed her primary school studies at the Colegio Luterano Concordia in the city of Cordoba, and her secondary school studies at the Instituto Dr. Manuel Lucero. An avid student, González received exemplary grades at school and even had the ability to quickly solve equations in her head. González attended university at the National University of Cordoba, which she graduated from with a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics in 1988. According to González, she began studying physics because she thought of it as a way to answer all of the pressing questions that humanity was faced with. In the end, however, she realized that physics does not answer all these questions but rather face us a species with more. One year following this, she moved to the United States to study at the Syracuse University, and under the tutelage of Peter Sawlson obtained her doctorate in Physics in 1995. She began a postdoc at MIT, where she later worked as a researcher, and then after that as a researcher at Pennsylvania State University. Beginning in April of 2017, she began working as a researcher at Louisiana State University. In 2008, González became the first woman to receive a full professorship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. González believes that science will be much better off when there are as many women as men, and that this will happens when the common myths and misconceptions about physicists, which tend to segregate women from research, start to fall apart, and furthermore when people believe that physicists are simply normal people with normal lives. Before moving to the United States, González began a relationship with Jorge Pullin, an Argentinian theoretical physicist with specializations in black hole collisions and the theory of quantum gravity working at Louisiana State University. They later wed. The two have no children. Career González has published several papers on Brownian motion as a limit to the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, and has an interest in data analysis for gravitational-wave