Amélie Saintonge
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Amélie Saintonge (born 1980) is a Canadian astrophysicist, a professor of astrophysics at University College London in England, and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.[1] Her research involves the use of radio astronomy to study star formation and its effects on galaxy evolution and the depletion of the interstellar medium.[2][3][4]
Saintonge was born in Montreal in 1980; her parents were both academics, in physics and mathematics education.[5] After attending French-language Catholic schools in Montreal, including the Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur and the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf,[5] she became an undergraduate student of mathematics and physics at the Université de Montréal.[1] and spent two summers at the NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre in Victoria, British Columbia before graduating in 2002.[5] She went to Cornell University in the US for graduate study at Cornell University, where her doctoral research involved the ALFALFA survey at the Arecibo Observatory.[1] Her 2008 doctoral dissertation, Properties of low mass dwarf galaxies in the ALFALFA survey, was supervised by Riccardo Giovanelli.[6]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Saintonge became a researcher at two Max Planck Institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, both located near Munich.[1] She became a lecturer of astrophysics at University College London and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2013,[1][2][3] later becoming a professor at University College London. In 2024, she took up the directorship of the Department of Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.[1]
Recognition
Saintonge was the 2018 recipient of the Fowler Award for Early Achievement in Astronomy of the Royal Astronomical Society.[4]
