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]