Nuria Calvet

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Calvet and the second or maternal family name is Cuni.

Núria Pilar Calvet Cuni (born 1950) is a Venezuelan astronomer who studies star formation and the evolution of protoplanetary disks around young stars. She is Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.[1] She was the first woman to work as a professional astronomer in Venezuela.[2]

Education and career

Calvet was born in Caracas in 1950. After study at the Central University of Venezuela, she earned a bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1973. She continued her studies at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1975 and completing her Ph.D. in 1981.[2] Her dissertation was Model atmospheres for T Tauri stars.[3]

She worked for the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia in Venezuela from 1981 to 1997, becoming vice president of the center.[2] Next, she became an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She moved to her present position at the University of Michigan in 2005.[4]

Recognition

Calvet was a 1987 recipient of the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize, the highest level private-sector science award of Venezuela.[5] She was the first woman to receive this award.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Nuria Calvet", Directory, University of Michigan Astronomy, retrieved 2023-10-01
  2. ^ a b c d De Castro, Alexandra; Álvarez Cornett, José (2016), "Nuria Calvet", in López, Liliana; Ranaudo, María Antonieta (eds.), Mujeres en Ciencia:Venezuela, sus historias inspiradoras (PDF) (in Spanish), Venezuela: Academia de Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y Naturales, pp. 122–126, retrieved 2023-10-01
  3. ^ "Nuria P Calvet", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2023-10-01
  4. ^ "Nuria Calvet", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-10-01
  5. ^ Premio Fundación Empresas Polar "Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury" (in Spanish), Fundación Empresas Polar, retrieved 2023-10-01