Katharine Reeves facts for kids

Katharine Reeves is an astronomer and solar physicist who works at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). She is known for her work on high temperature plasmas in the solar corona, and measurement/analysis techniques to probe the physics of magnetic reconnection and thermal energy transport during solar flares; these are aspects of the coronal heating problem that organizes a large part of the field. She has a strong scientific role in multiple NASA and international space missions to observe the Sun: Hinode (Project Scientist for the XRT instrument); IRIS (Institutional PI for SAO); SDO; Parker Solar Probe; and suborbital sounding rockets including the MaGIXS and Hi-C FLARE high-resolution spectral imaging packages.

Reeves has advised multiple graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in the field of solar physics, including Samaiyah Farid, Xie Xiaoyan, Nishu Karna, and Soumya Roy.

Education

• B.A., Reed College
• M.S., Northeastern University
• Ph.D., University of New Hampshire

Awards and honors

In 2016, Reeves was awarded the prestigious Karen Harvey Prize by the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division, in recognition of her significant contributions to the study of the sun in her early career.

See also

In Spanish: Katharine Reeves para niños