Chryssa Kouveliotou

Chryssa Kouveliotou ita din masaniyar ilmin taurari ce yar kasar Girka ce. Ita din farfesa ce a Jami'ar George Washington kuma babbar jami'ar fasaha ta yi ritaya a fannin kimiyyar sararin samaniya mai karfin kuzari a Cibiyar Jirgin Sama ta NASA ta NASA a Huntsville, Alabama.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi

Kouveliotou ta sami digirinta na farko a fannin kimiyyar lissafi daga National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Girka, a shekara 1975, kuma ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyya daga Jami'ar Sussex, Ingila, a shekara 1977. Ta sami digiri na uku a fannin ilimin taurari a cikin shekara 1981 daga Jami'ar Fasaha ta Munich, Jamus, ƙarƙashin kulawar Klaus Pinkau. Ta kasance babbar jami'a a Dept. of Physics na National & Kapodistrian University of Athens kafin ta ci gaba da aikin bincike a Amurka .

Sana'a

Kouveliotou ta shiga NASA Marshall Space Flight Center shekara 1991, da farko tana tallafawa Ƙungiyar Gamma Ray Astrophysics. Gudunmawarta masu yawa ga fagagen ilmin taurari da ilmin taurari sun faɗaɗa fahimtar kimiyya game da gushewa, al'amura masu wucewa a cikin galaxy Milky hanya ta ko'ina cikin sararin samaniya. Bayan ƙayyadaddu kaddarorin hayaki mai ƙarfi daga fashewar gamma-ray - mafi haske kuma mafi ƙarfi abubuwan da suka faru na sararin samaniya da aka taɓa rubutawa - Kouveliotou tana cikin ƙungiyar wadda a cikin shekara 1997 ya bayyana yanayin abubuwan ban mamaki. A shekara ta 1998, ita da tawagarta sun fara tabbatar da gano taurarin neutron masu yawan gaske da ake kira magnetars - taurarin da suka rage bayan wani supernova. A cikin shekara 2015 ta koma a matsayin ta na Farfesa Physics a Jami'ar George Washington . Ta kasance Shugabar Sashen Physics a GWU daga shekara 2020 zuwa shekara 2023 kuma tun daga shekara 2019 tana aiki a matsayin Shugabar Kwamitin Kasa na Amurka na IAU.

Kyauta

An gane Kouvelioutou kuma ta sami lambobin yabo da yawa don aikinta a fannin ilmin taurari mai ƙarfi, gami da

• Kyautar Shaw (tare da Victoria M. Kaspi ) a cikin shekara2021
• Kyautar Dannie Heineman don Astrophysics a cikin shekara2012
• Medal na Musamman na NASA a cikin shekara2012
• Kyautar Bruno Rossi don aikinta akan magnetars (tare da Robert Duncan da Christopher Thompson ) a cikin shekara2003

A shekarar 2012 an nada ta daya daga cikin mutane ashirin da biyar 25 da suka fi tasiri a sararin samaniyar Mujallar Time. A cikin shekara 2005, ta sami lambar yabo ta NASA Space Act Award, wanda ke gane da kuma ba da lada ga fitattun gudummawar kimiyya ko fasaha masu mahimmanci ga manufar NASA. A shekara ta 2002, ita ce kadai wakiliyar Amurka a cikin tawagar kasa da kasa da ta sami lambar yabo ta Descartes a Astrophysics, wanda ya fahimci ci gaban kimiyya daga binciken haɗin gwiwar Turai a kowane fanni na kimiyya.

Kouvelioutou an zabeta a matsayin memba a US National Academy of Sciences (2013) and of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016). She kuma an Kara zabenta a matsayin memba ta waje Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences cikin shekara 2015 as well as a foreign member of the Academy of Athens (Greece) cikin shekara 2016. cikin shekara 2015 ta karbi lambon yabo a matsayinta na commandershe received the award of Commander mai bada umarni,mai girma akan gomnatin Greek, for excellence cikin ilimin kimiya. An zabeta ita mabiyar yan America Society cikin shekara 1993, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, as well as Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.

Kouveliotou ta yi aiki kuma ta jagoranci kwamitocin shawarwari da kimantawa na cibiyoyin ilimi. Kwanan nan, a cikin shekara 2022, an zabe ta memba a Majalisar Kimiyya ta ERC.

Rayuwa ta sirri

Kouveliotou ya auri ɗan'uwansa masanin ilmin taurari Jan van Paradijs .