Jocelyn Read

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,^[1] and using the measurements of those waves to provide observational verification of the equations of state of neutron stars.^[2]

Read grew up in Calgary, Alberta,^[3] and was motivated to study science out of a childhood love of science fiction.^[4] She did her undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia, with honours in a double major in mathematics and physics;^[3] she writes that she chose this combination of topics both for its difficulty and its flexibility in future directions.^[4] 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.^[4][5]

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.^[3]

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".^[6]

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