Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (born 19 December 1955) is a Brazilian
astrophysicist working at the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
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in
Porto Alegre
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, Brazil. She won the
Women in Science Award in 2015 for her work on
supermassive black hole
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s.
Career
In 2004, she was one of the most cited Brazilian scientists.
In 2004, along with Luis C. Ho and H. R. Schmitt, she edited the book ''The Interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei,'' proceedings of the 222nd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union.
In 2009, she joined the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
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In 2010, she edited, together with Drs. Bradley M. Peterson and Rachel S. Somerville, the book ''Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies,'' proceedings of the 267th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union.
In 2011, she joined
The World Academy of Sciences
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.
In 2015, she received the
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for the Latin America region. The award cited her "outstanding work on
super-massive black holes in the centers of galaxies and their associated regions of dense gas, dust, and young stars surrounding them, as well as their role in the
evolution of galaxies."
In 2018, she received the National Medal of Scientific Merit from the Brazilian government.
In 2018, she was nominated President of the Commission X1 of the International Astronomical Union, on ''Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution''.
References
External links
*http://www.if.ufrgs.br/~thaisa/
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1955 births
People from Caxias do Sul
Brazilian astrophysicists
Living people
Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
21st-century Brazilian women scientists
Brazilian scientists
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates
Brazilian women physicists