Louise Harra | |
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Education | The Queen's University of Belfast, B.Sc. |
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Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | ETH Zurich |
Louise Harra is a Northern Irish physicist, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She is the Director of the World Radiation Centre of the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos (PMOD/WRC)[1][2] and affiliated professor at the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics of ETH Zurich.[3]
Louise Harra was born in County Armagh, and she attended later Banbridge Academy.[4]
She graduated from The Queen's University of Belfast with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Maths and Physics and a PhD in Physics.
She was a professor of solar physics at University College, London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory[5][6] until 2019, with much of her career being involved in space instruments. She was principal investigator (PI) of the EUV Imaging Spectrometer instrument on the Hinode spacecraft from 2006 to 2019. She is co-PI of the Solar Orbiter EUV Imager.
In 2019 she moved to take on the position of director at PMOD/WRC and affiliated professor at ETH Zurich.
Harra's research interests include solar flares and coronal mass ejections, formation of the solar wind and Sun-Earth connection. Her research makes use of spectroscopic and imaging observations to quantify the characteristics and behaviour of solar flares and the solar wind.
Harra has been involved in a number of space missions in her career. These include:
Harra has given radio and TV interviews. These include:
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