Brief Bio
Deirdre received her B.S. in Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics from the Pennsylvania State University and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State and Cornell University before joining the faculty at Penn State in 2004. She moved to the School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2008 and to the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. She has won the NSF Career award, was part of the Breack Through Prize given to the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, has served on the Astronomy and Astropysics Advisory Council, is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and has held several elected roles in APS DGRAV. She was instrumental in the formation of the newly rebooted LISA Consortium. Her current favorite activiity is being a member of the LISA Science Team.