Nuria Calvet
Núria Pilar Calvet Cuni (born 1950) is a Venezuelan astronomer who studies
star formation and the evolution of
protoplanetary disks around young stars. She is Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy at the
University of Michigan. She was the first woman to work as a professional astronomer in Venezuela. Calvet studies the first stages of the life of stars and of the planets around them. Some of her recent contributions include investigations of protoplanetary disk evolution, and strong evidence for how planet formation is involved in
dust clearing.
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