Английская Википедия:Catherine Espaillat
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Catherine C. Espaillat is an American astronomer whose research is focused on the formation of planets, including the study of protoplanetary disks and young stellar objects.Шаблон:R She is an associate professor of astronomy at Boston University, where she directs the Institute for Astrophysical Research.Шаблон:R
Education and career
Espaillat comes from a working-class immigrant family;Шаблон:R her parents emigrated to the US from the Dominican Republic.Шаблон:R She was interested in astronomy since childhood, but entered Columbia University intending to become a physician; her focus changed to a career in astronomy after taking an introductory course in the subject as a sophomore.Шаблон:R After graduating in 2003 with a degree in astronomy, she went to the University of Michigan for graduate study, earned a master's degree there in 2005, and completed her Ph.D. in 2009,Шаблон:R under the supervision of Nuria Calvet.Шаблон:R
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 2009 to 2013, supported by the National Science Foundation and by a NASA Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship. Next, she joined the Boston University Department of Astronomy as an assistant professor in 2013.Шаблон:R She was promoted to associate professor in 2020.Шаблон:R
Espaillat is also the director of the League of Underrepresented Minoritized Astronomers (LUMA), a peer mentoring community for women from underrepresented groups in astronomy and related fields,Шаблон:R which she founded in 2015.Шаблон:R
Recognition
Espaillat was named as a Sloan Research Fellow and as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2022, the American Association for the Advancement of Science named Espaillat as an AAAS Fellow.Шаблон:R
She was a keynote speaker at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.Шаблон:R
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