Prize

Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards

November 15, 2023

Gravitational Waves Group

Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards

The Virgo Award Committee recognized her activity during her PhD at IFAE within the search for the stochastic background of gravitational waves within the LVK collaborations, from modeling and development of novel data analysis strategies all the way to instrumentation.

The Virgo Awards are given by the international Virgo Collaboration, every year, to young scientists of the collaboration, for their significant contribution to the operation of the experiment and to the results of the Virgo Collaboration.

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