A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has won the Young Astronomer Award 2008 from the Astronomical Society of Japan.
Dr Hideko Nomura received the award in recognition of her achievements, including her part in developing a €500million telescopic project in Chile that will study how stars and planets are formed.
Professor Tom Millar who has worked closely with her in the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen’s, says: “Hideko’s work over the past five years has been aimed at solving some of the most fundamental problems in astronomy today.”
Dr Nomura has developed physical and chemical models of massive star-forming cores and proto-planetary disks around low mass stars.
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