Cristina Hemilse Mandrini is an Argentinian solar physicist. She is currently a researcher at the Argentinian National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
Mandrini completed her PhD in solar physics at the University of Buenos Aires in 1989. She took up a position as a researcher at CONICET in 1991 and was appointed Professor at the University of Buenos Aires in 2000. Mandrini is a strong advocate of Argentinian science,[1] most notably via active involvement in the International Astronomical Union at a range of levels for more than two decades.[2]
Mandrini's research centres on the dynamics and structure of the coronal magnetic field and its role in solar flares,[3] coronal mass ejections and coronal heating.[4][5] She has also studied wave modes in the corona as a potential fingerprint of specific coronal heating mechanisms.[6]
2022: Elected International Astronomical Union President of Division E (Sun and Heliosphere)[2][7][8]
2021 IAU President for National Committee for Astronomy (Argentina)[9]
2019 Elected to World Academy of Sciences[10]
2018 Elected International Astronomical Union Vice-president of Division E (Sun and Heliosphere)[2]
2018 Elected fellow of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales[11][12]
2017 Appointed Solar Physics Editor-in-chief[13]