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Serena Viti is a professor at Leiden University and previously was a professor and the head of Astrophysics at University College London. In March 2019 she received an ERC Advanced Grant for her MOPPEX proposal (MOlecules as Probes of the Physics of EXternal galaxies).^[1]

Education

Viti was an undergraduate at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, where she gained a BSc in Astrophysics in 1994. She was awarded a PhD from University College London (UCL) for her work on the infrared spectra of cool stars and sunspots in 1997.^[2] After her PhD, Viti became a post-doctoral fellow at UCL in the field of star formation and astrochemistry, followed by a fixed-term lectureship at the CNR in Rome as a Herschel Scientist. She returned to UCL in October 2003 for an STFC Advanced Fellowship and became a lecturer of Astrophysics in 2004. She was promoted to Reader in 2007 and to professor of astrophysics in 2012. Viti became head of the Astrophysics department at UCL in 2016.^[3] In July 2020 Leiden University (the Netherlands) announced that the Leiden Observatory has appointed Viti a chair in Molecular Astrophysics.^[4]

Research and career

Viti is on the editorial board for Molecular Astrophysics.^[5] She is the current secretary of the European Astronomical Society,^[6] was a Royal Astronomical Society council member (2002–2005), and serves on several STFC panels and committees.^[7]^[8] The central focus of her research is in the field of astrochemistry and the study of molecules in space.^[9] She is a member of the International Astronomical Union,^[10] the Royal Astronomical Society, the European Astronomical Society^[11] and the Astrophysical Chemistry Society. She led an exhibition on astrochemistry at the 2004 Royal Society Summer Exhibition.^[12] Viti has co-authored a book on observational molecular astronomy.^[13]

Awards and honours

Viti was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Fowler Award for Astronomy in 2006^[14] and the Australian Astronomical Observatory Distinguished Visitor Fellowship in 2015.^[15]

References

^ "EU invests €540 million to boost cutting-edge research". ERC: European Research Council. 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
^ Viti, Serena (2016). "Infrared Spectra of Cool Stars and Sunspots" (PDF). TAMPA website.
^ "Astrophysics Head of Group". www.ucl.ac.uk. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ "Serena Viti is new professor Molecular Astrophysics". Leiden University. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
^ "Serena Viti". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ Switzerland, Marc Türler and Mathias Beck, ISDC, Observatory of the University of Geneva. "EAS Contact". eas.unige.ch. Retrieved 2018-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Astronomy Advisory Panel - Science and Technology Facilities Council". stfc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ Commons, The Committee Office, House of. "House of Commons - Science and Technology Committee - Written Evidence". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ UCL (2018-04-25). "Professor Serena Viti". UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ Switzerland, Marc Türler and Mathias Beck, ISDC, Observatory of the University of Geneva. "EAS Individual Members". eas.unige.ch. Retrieved 2018-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Viti, Serena; Brown, Wendy; McCoustra, Martin; Fraser, Helen; Mason, Nigel; Massey, Robert (December 2004). "The making of Stars 'R' Us!" (PDF). Astronomy and Geophysics. 45 (6): 6.22 – 6.24. doi:10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.45622.x. ISSN 1366-8781.
^ Williams, David A.; Viti, Serena (2009). Observational Molecular Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139087445. ISBN 9781139087445.
^ "PN05/48: RAS Announces Astronomy Award Winners for 2006 | The Royal Astronomical Society". ras.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
^ aaoweb (2014-08-19). "AAO Distinguished Visitor Scheme". www.aao.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-07-26.