Veerle Sterken awarded the Christophe Plantin Prize 2021
This year's Christophe Plantin Prize has been awarded to Dr. Veerle Sterken for her pioneering research into interstellar dust in the solar system.
Veerle Sterken leads the Astrophysical Dust Group at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich. Her group explores the science of cosmic dust near and inside the solar system. Their work is supported by the ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant “ASTRODUST: The Heliosphere and the Dust: Characterisation of the Solar and Interstellar Neighbourhood”. The project also receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programmme.
The Christophe Plantin Prize is awarded to Belgians living abroad for their special achievements in Science, Social Commitment, or Culture with the goal of promoting Belgium's influence around the world. Each domain is awarded the prize in turn every three years, i.e. 2021 for Science.
Links
- external page Christophe Plantin Prize Science Laureate 2021
- Astrophysical Dust Group at the Departement of Physics, ETH Zurich
- IPA: Christoffer Plantin prize for Veerle Sterken
- D-PHYS News: Veerle Sterken awarded the Christophe Plantin Prize 2021
- external page Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft (Science, 2014)
- external page Christophe Plantin Prize