Photo by Tony Rinaldo for Harvard Radcliffe Institute

 Merav Opher

 Professor

 Department of Astronomy
 Boston  University                              
 CAS Bldg, Room 514F     
 PHONE: (617) 358-6385                
 FAX:   (617) 353-5704          
 mopher@bu.edu     

William Bentinck-Smith Fellow 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2021-2022

 Director of SHIELD



Talk at Radcliffe Institute at Harvard:

Understanding Our Heliospheric Shield: Laying the Groundwork to Predict Habitable Astrospheres




Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography

   

Recent paper on "Terrestrial Impact from the Passage of the Solar System through a Cold Cloud a Few Million Years Ago"


Where I'm Coming From: Video about Science and Diversity
   Reading Elizabeth Bishop "One Art" (Favorite Poem Project)

 
 


Research
 

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News about Opher's research


Merav Opher, a professor in the Astronomy Department at Boston University is interested in understanding the cocoons around stars, called astrospheres generated by the stellar winds as they move through the interstellar medium that surrounds them. Her research is focused in particular on understanding the heliosphere the coccon around the solar system, and lay the ground work to predict habitable astrospheres.

Bio

Prof. Merav Opher is a Professor in the Astronomy Department at Boston University. Recently she was awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship 2021-2022 from Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Opher been honored to receive numerous awards. Among them, the PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2008); as well as the NSF Young Investigator CAREER Award (2008). She was recently awarded, as a Principal Investigator, one of the largest NASA Science Centers called SHIELD. SHIELD is a multi -instititional effort with more than 40 leading scientists across a dozen institutions that it’s goal is to develop a new predictive global model for the heliosphere. She is actively involved in several Society Leadership and Community Service being currently the Editor of Geophysical Research Letters. She was the Chair-Elect of the APS Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics; member of the Decadal Survey in Space Physics of Solar and Heliospheric Panel and the last three NASA Heliophysics Mission Senior Review Panels.


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