Viviana received her Ph.D from New Mexico Tech in Physics with a dissertation in Astrophysics studying the earliest stages of high-mass star formation. Specifically, she uses interferometers such as the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study ionized jets and molecular outflows associated with high-mass protostars. Currently, she is a Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology working in the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA-2000) project where she is part of the forward modeling team constructing simulations to characterize the performance of the array. Viviana enjoys reading, hiking, jigsaw puzzles and training dogs to perform new tricks.