Nuria Calvet

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]

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

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. 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
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