Eileen Gonzales
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Eileen Gonzales | |
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| Alma mater | City University of New York, San Francisco State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, astronomy, exoplanets, brown dwarves, low-mass stars |
| Institutions | Cornell University, American Museum of Natural History |
| Thesis | Understanding Atmospheres Across the Stellar-Substellar Boundary (2020) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacqueline K. Faherty |
Eileen Gonzales is an American astrophysicist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, where her research focuses on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. She is also a co-founder and lead organizer of #BlackInPhysics, a campaign to recognize and celebrate Black physicists and amplify their work.
Gonzales grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She studied astrophysics at Michigan State University, and obtained her Master's in Physics from San Francisco State University.[1][2] She joined the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for her graduate studies, obtaining an MA from Hunter College, an MPhil in Physics, and her PhD in 2020.[3][4] During her doctoral research, she investigated the atmospheric conditions of low-mass stars and brown dwarves.[5][6][7][8]
Research career
Gonzales is a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University,[9] where she combines techniques and knowledge from observational astronomy and theoretical astrophysics to study the atmospheric conditions of exoplanets.[10][11] In particular, she works on translating techniques initially developed to study the clouds of brown dwarfs to study atmosphere of other substellar objects, such as gas giant exoplanets.[12][13] She is also a visiting scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.[14]