Manuela Temmer
Austrian astrophysicist
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Manuela Temmer is associate professor of Astrophysics[1] at the University of Graz, Austria and Head of the Heliospheric Physics Research Group.[2] She is an expert in the science underpinning space weather forecasting.[3]
Education and scientific career
Temmer completed her PhD at the university in Graz in 2004, before taking up a post-doctoral research scientist post at Hvar Observatory, Zagreb. She returned to Graz for further post-doctoral work before securing a senior research fellowship in 2014 at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto. She returned to Graz in 2015.[4]
Research interests
Temmer has published more than 200 scientific papers on solar and heliospheric physics.[5] Of note is her work on solar flares[6] and coronal mass ejections, particularly their evolution from Sun through interplanetary space, to their impacts at Earth.[7] She has developed methods for forecasting space weather at Earth and Mars, and heads up an International Space Weather Action Team[8] under the auspices of COSPAR.
Awards and honours
2021: Leader of the ISSI international team on open solar flux.[9]
2021: Member of the ESA Solar System and Exploration Working Group[10]
2018: Science Co-I Solar Orbiter/STIX (Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays)
2018: Member of editorial board for the journal Solar Physics[11]
2014: NASA Group Achievement Award to RHESSI Science and Data Analysis Team
2010: Elise Richter fellowship (Career Development Programme for Women) from the Austrian Science Fund[12]
2008: APART (Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology) fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2005: Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship from the Austrian Science Fund