Amélie Saintonge

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]

Education and career

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]

Personal life

Saintonge has also worked as a chamber musician and amateur opera singer.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Amélie Saintonge appointed new director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy: Head of a new research department on Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, 20 June 2024, retrieved 2025-05-15
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Amelie Saintonge", Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty Spotlights, University College London, 1 November 2024, retrieved 2025-05-15
  3. ^ a b "Case study: Dr Amelie Saintonge", Grants at the Royal Society / University Research Fellowship, Royal Society, retrieved 2025-05-15
  4. ^ a b Citation for the 2018 RAS 'A' Fowler Award: Dr Amelie Saintonge (PDF), Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, retrieved 2025-05-15
  5. ^ a b c Saintonge, Amélie (2007), Properties of low mass dwarf galaxies in the ALFALFA survey (Ph.D. thesis), Cornell University, Bibcode:2007PhDT........30S, ProQuest 304866338; see biographical sketch, p. iii
  6. ^ "Amelie Saintonge", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2025-05-15
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