Magdalena González Sanchez

María Magdalena González Sánchez (born May 8, 1974) is a Mexican astrophysicist, nuclear physicist, researcher, and professor best known for her contributions in gamma ray research and for being the head of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment (HAWC). She has published 90 articles about her field of study in indexed journals. In 2015 she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Biography Dr. González obtained a licentiate in physics at the UNAM Faculty of Sciences within the area of nuclear physics. She earned her PhD in physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the area of high-energy astrophysics while working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Neutron Science and Technology Group. She had a postdoctoral residency at the , where she is currently a senior researcher.

She is the initiator and collaborator on the HAWC gamma ray observatory, located on the Sierra Negra volcano in Puebla, Mexico. She was also a collaborator and participated in the discoveries of the Milagro Experiment.

Part of her research is dedicated to the study of gamma-ray bursts with satellite observatories.

Awards and recognitions

2011: American Physical Society International Research Travel Award 2011: Elsevier Foundation Award to Young Scientists in Physics and Mathematics for the Latin America and Caribbean Region 2015: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition, UNAM