Cadonati completed her PhD at
Princeton University in 2001 with her thesis
The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment and its Scintillator Containment Vessel. She was an associate professor in the physics department at
University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving to the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at
Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015. Cadonati has been a member of the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration since 2002, and was involved in the first observations of gravitational waves in 2015. In 2017 she became the first deputy spokesperson for LIGO and was widely quoted in the media as LIGO detected its third gravitational wave. Cadonati became associate dean for research in the College of Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021. She is a member of the
International Astronomical Union. ==Awards and honors==