Ineke_De_Moortel

Ineke De Moortel

Ineke De Moortel

Belgian mathematician

Ineke De Moortel FRAS FRSE is a Belgian applied mathematician in Scotland, where she is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, director of research in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews,[1] and president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.[2] Her research concerns the computational and mathematical modelling of solar physics, and particularly of the Sun's corona.[1][3]

Education and career

De Moortel earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1997 at KU Leuven.[4] She completed a Ph.D. in solar physics in 2001 at the University of St Andrews; her dissertation, Theoretical & Observational Aspects of Wave Propagation in the Solar Corona, was supervised by Alan Hood. She remained at St Andrews as a postdoctoral researcher and research fellow, becoming a reader there in 2008 and a professor in 2013.[4] Since 2019 she has been a member of the editorial board at the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[5] De Moortel sits on the judging panel for the St Andrews Prize for the Environment.[6]

Recognition

In 2005, De Moortel became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[4] In 2009 she won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics.[7] She was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015, and previously co-chaired its affiliate society, the Young Academy of Scotland.[3]

References

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    Professor Ineke De Moortel FRSE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, retrieved 14 February 2018
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    Curriculum vitae (PDF), 30 August 2017, retrieved 14 February 2018
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    "Prof. Ineke De Moortel". Editorial Boards & Team. Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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    "About the St Andrews Prize". st-andrews.ac.uk. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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    Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2009 (PDF), The Leverhulme Trust, archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2018, retrieved 14 February 2018
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