Karelle Siellez, Ph.D.
Astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz
Website: https://karellesiellez.com/
Karelle Siellez graduated from her PhD in Astrophysics in France and moved to Atlanta for Postdoctoral research in Astrophysics at Georgia Tech in 2015. She is now working as an Astrophysicist at the University of Santa Cruz, California. She participated on the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves which was rewarded by a Nobel Prize and she received the breakthrough prize in 2017.
She is also an “artivist” (artist-activist) connecting art and science together with a call for action. She completed several murals around the theme of ocean life in Atlanta and in Europe, has conducted projects intertwining art and science outreach, focusing on underserved populations with scarce access to museums and art, and organized countless outreach events for children to introduce astrophysics through craft activities. She is the co-founder of the Whale Shark Project, an environmental non-profit created in 2017 that won the Georgia Tech Earth Day award in 2019.
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Karelle Siellez graduated from her PhD in Astrophysics in France and moved to Atlanta for Postdoctoral research in Astrophysics at Georgia Tech in 2015. She is now working as an Astrophysicist at the University of California Santa Cruz. She participated on the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves which was rewarded by a Nobel Prize and she received the breakthrough prize in 2017. She is also an “artivist” (artist-activist) connecting art and science together with a call for action. She completed several murals around the theme of ocean life in Atlanta and in Europe, has conducted projects intertwining art and science outreach, focusing on underserved populations with scarce access to museums and art, and organized countless outreach events for children to introduce astrophysics through craft activities. She is the co-founder of the Whale Shark Project, an environmental non-profit created in 2017 that won the Georgia Tech Earth Day award in 2019.