Request lecture
In this talk we will try to understand what gravitational waves are and how we managed to detect them 100 years after the theoretical prediction by Einstein as a result of the revolutionary theory of General Relativity. The information provided by these waves, in combination with the information that reaches us through light at different frequencies, allows us to understand the Universe that surrounds us a little better. In the same way that Galileo's observations revolutionised our understanding of the world in which we lived, with the observations of gravitational waves we are opening a new window in the observation and study of the Universe.
Brief CV
Graduated in Mathematics and PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Valencia, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for astrophysics in Garching (Munich, Germany) and at the Paris-Meudon Observatory (Paris, France), and visiting researcher at the Universities of Liège and Namur in Belgium. She is currently a full time professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Valencia, in the area of Applied Mathematics. She combines her teaching work with an intense research activity in the field of applied mathematics and astrophysics, with a special interest in numerical relativity and gravitational waves. She is a member of the group in Valencia of the international collaboration Virgo, and coordinator of dissemination and communication of the collaboration. She is the scientific communication manager of the COST G2net European Action on gravitational waves, geophysics and Machine Learning. She has more than 25 publications in high-impact international journals and more than 40 lectures in international scientific conferences. She actively participates in educational innovation projects, and dedicates a large part of her time and her enthusiasm to many scientific dissemination activities, among which she stands out as an active member of the Associació Sapiència.
More information
- Descubriendo el universo con las ondas gravitatorias, lecture, e-XPOCIÈNCIA 2021
- Observatorios de ondas gravitacionales: Tecnología punta para una ciencia fascinante, lecture, 2020 Science week, Quart de Poblet:
- The dissemination of mathematics seeks new paths from the university
- The Virgo and LIGO collaborations observe the first "combined" pair of a black hole and a neutron star
- Las predicciones de Einstein confirmadas y las que seguimos explorando
- A la recerca de fusions d'estrelles de neutrons
Social networks
- @FuturaConjetura
- @FMatemaUV_EG
- @VirgoValencia
- @ego_virgo
- @g2_net
- @Sapiencia5
- @CdCienciaUV
- @MednightGTS
Request lecture
Stimulating scientific vocations is a project of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia, which has co-funding from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
