Ilse Cleeves

Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves is an American astrophysicist and an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia.[1] She is specialized in the study of protoplanetary disks.

Career

From 2015 to 2018, Cleeves was a Hubble Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.[2] Before that, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan under supervision of Edwin Bergin.

She is an expert in astrochemical signatures of circumstellar disks. She studies the chemistry, composition, and structure of young planetary systems in formation around low-mass stars, using theoretical modelling and observations from Atacama Large Millimeter Array and Herschel Space Observatory.[3][4] She has studied the origin of water on Earth.[5]

Awards

In 2018, Cleeves was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy "for her groundbreaking work on planet formation and protoplanetary disks".[6]

In 2019, Cleeves was awarded a Packard Fellowship[7]

References

1. "Ilse Cleeves – Assistant Professor". University of Virginia. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
2. "NASA and STScI Select Hubble Fellows for 2015". NASA. April 6, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
3. "AAS Names Recipients of 2018 Awards and Prizes". American Astronomical Society. January 10, 2018. Archived from the original on December 2, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
4. "L. Ilsedore Cleeves". University of Virginia. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
5. Feltman, Rachel (September 25, 2014). "The water on our planet may be older than the sun, which is good news in the hunt for extraterrestrial life". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
6. "Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
7. https://www.packard.org/insights/news/packard-fellowships-in-science-and-engineering-announces-2019-class-of-fellows/. Retrieved October 16, 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)