About the Author

Delilah E. A. Gates​    deagates@princeton.edu

Gravity Initiative
Department of Physics
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

Delilah E. A. Gates is an associate research scholar at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. She  earned a BS in physics and  in mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, in 2015 and received her PhD from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2021. She is a theoretical physicist whose research focuses on studying observational signatures of spinning black holes by leveraging features of the spacetime geometry and lensing of light around them. Outside of physics, Delilah enjoys poetry, board/card games, and decorating cakes.