Irina Belskaya

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Irina Belskaya
Бельська Ірина Миколаївна
Born(1958-11-14)14 November 1958
Citizenship Soviet Union
Ukraine
Alma mater Kharkiv University
Scientific career
Fields Astronomy
Institutions Kharkiv Observatory
Doctoral advisor Dmitrij F. Lupishko

Irina Belskaya (born 1958) is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in spectroscopy and polarimetry of Small Solar System bodies, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University, [1] recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010). [2]

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Biography

Irina Belskaya was born on November 14, 1958, in Kharkiv Oblast. In 1975, she graduated from a specialized physics and mathematics school with a gold medal and entered the Astronomy Department of Kharkiv University. In 1980, she graduated from the university with honors and began working at the Kharkiv Observatory. In 1987, she defended her PhD thesis "Photometry and polarimetry of M-type asteroids". [3]

She worked at the Uppsala Observatory (Sweden, 1992-1993) and Paris Observatory (France, 2002-2004). [3] She received grants from the American Astronomical Society (1992), DAAD (2000), the European Space Agency (2003), the International Space Science Institute (2008), scholarship from the Swedish Institute (1992), and the Marie Curie International Scholarship (2009). [4] In 2008, she defended her Sc.D. dissertation "Optical properties of surfaces of asteroids, centaurs, and Kuiper belt bodies". [3]

In 2010, she received the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology for the collective work "Advancement of theoretical foundation, development and application of polarimetric techniques and instrumentation for remote sensing studies of Solar System objects by ground-based, aircraft, and spacecraft means". [2]

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References

  1. Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets, Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University
  2. 1 2 3 Указ Президента України № 594/2011 Про присудження Державних премій України в галузі науки і техніки 2010 року. Президент України. Офіційне інтернет-представництво
  3. 1 2 3 Бакіров В. С. (ред.). Бельська Ірина Миколаївна // Професори Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Біобібліографічний довідник. — Харків : ХНУ ім. В. Н. Каразіна, 2009. — С. 34. — 700 прим.
  4. 1 2 Irina Belskaya, Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University
  5. 8786 Belskaya (1978 RA8). JPL Small-Body Database Browser

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