Amina Helmi

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Amina Helmi
Amina Helmi in 2019
Born (1970-09-06) 6 September 1970 (age 53)[3]
Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
NationalityArgentine[3]
Alma materLeiden University (PhD)[4]
Known forHelmi stream
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
University of La Plata
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Utrecht University
ThesisThe formation of the Galactic Halo (2000)
Doctoral advisorsTim de Zeeuw
Simon White
Websitewww.astro.rug.nl/~ahelmi/ Edit this at Wikidata

Amina Helmi (6 October 1970) is an Argentine astronomer and professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.[5][2]

Education

Helmi was educated at

PhD in 2000 with a thesis on the formation of the galactic halo, supervised by Tim de Zeeuw and Simon White.[6][4]

Career and research

Since 2003 Helmi has been faculty member at the University of Groningen, and has been a full professor since 2014. Previously, she held

University of La Plata in Argentina, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, and Utrecht University
in the Netherlands.

Her research focuses investigates the

galactic archaeology.[5][7] She also studies the nature of dark matter. In her research, Helmi uses computer simulations as well as observational data from for example the Gaia space telescope.[8][9]

Awards and honors

In 2019, Helmi was named one of the four winners of the Spinoza Prize.[10] She was awarded membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[11]

She was awarded the Christiaan Huygensprize in 2004[12] and the Pastoor Schmeitsprize in 2010.[13]

The

Suffrage Science award
in 2019.

In 2021, Helmi won the Brouwer Award from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society.

References

  1. ^ van Hal, George (21 June 2019). "'Archeoloog van de sterren' Amina Helmi krijgt de Spinozapremie, de hoogste wetenschappelijke eer van Nederland". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b Amina Helmi publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b "De Jonge Akademie – Amina Helmi". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Gaia people – Amina Helmi". esa.int. European Space Agency. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  5. ^
    S2CID 236290725
    . Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  6. OCLC 495524256
    .
  7. S2CID 211076105
    . Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  8. S2CID 49211658
    .
  9. ^ "Prof. dr. Amina Helmi". University of Groningen. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  10. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 2019". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 21 June 2019. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020.
  11. ^ Amina Helmi, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, archived from the original on 2020-08-11, retrieved 2019-01-05
  12. ^ "Laureaten Christiaan Huygens Wetenschapsprijs" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Amina Helmi and Joop Schaye win Pastoor Schmeits Prize for astronomy". University of Groningen. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
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