Congratulations to Cassi Lochhaas (KSPA 2018)
Cassi was elected Hubble Fellow, and will be taking a position at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Read more here.
Congratulations to Ariadna Murguia-Berthier (KSPA fellow of 2017)
Ariadna was awarded the prestigious ASP Trumpler award for her PhD Thesis. Read more here
A nice article about Connor Bottrell, KSPA fellow of 2019
Connor Bottrell is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, and was featured in the Kavli Foundation news bulletin.
Congratulations to Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, KSPA fellow of 2017
Ariadna Murguia-Berthier was awarded the prestigious Einstein fellowship in 2021. Read here for more detail.
Congratulations to Diana Powell, KSPA fellow of 2016
Diana Powell was awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation fellowship in 2020. Please read here for more information. She was also awarded the prestigious Sagan Fellowship in 2021.
Congratulations to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, co-director of the 2017 program
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, who co-directed the 2017 program at the Niels Bohr Institute on Astrophysics with Gravitational Wave detections, was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences
Congratulations to Peter Gao (KSPA 2016) and Michael Zevin (KSPA 2017)
This year was a big year for former KSPA fellows, with two alumni selected for prestigious fellowships in 2020. Peter Gao was elected Sagan Fellow, and Michael Zevin was elected Hubble Fellow. Read more here.
KSPA 2020
The 2020 program was postponed due to COVID-19. It will be hopefully be held at the Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research in Goettingen in 2021, still on the topic of "Fluid dynamics in the Sun and stars", and will be directed by Aaron Birch.
KSPA 2019
A wonderful write-up about the Kavli Summer Program by the Simons Foundation, hosts of the 2018 summer program
The Simons Foundation published a very nice article about the 2018 summer program in their annual report.
Congratulations to Valerie Korol, 2017 Kavli student fellow
Valeriya Korol of Leiden Observatory, student fellow of the 2017 Kavli Summer Program, was awarded The Gruber Foundation Fellowship for 2019. Read more on the IAU website.
Congratulations to Sarah Rugheimer, 2016 Kavli postdoc
The inaugural Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship winner is Dr Sarah RUGHEIMER, Simons Research Fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews. The selection committee's citation reads:
Dr Rugheimer is an outstanding early career researcher studying the atmospheric composition of exoplanets, and the potential of these atmospheres to provide fingerprints of conditions that can sustain life. Her key results include showing how clouds can complicate the detection of oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and how a star’s ultraviolet radiation affects the ability to detect signatures of life on its orbiting planets. She will give her Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on “Hues of Habitability – Characterising Pale Blue Dots around Other Stars” in or around November. Read more on this website.
Congratulations to Nestor Espinoza, 2016 Kavli Fellow
Former Kavli Fellow Nestor Espinoza (KSPA 2016) was awarded the 2018 Gruber Foundation fellowship for his work on ground-based detection of exoplanets and characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres. Read more on the IAU website.