Samar Safi-Harb | |
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Title | Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Astrophysics |
Sub-discipline | Supernova remnants |
Institutions | University of Manitoba |
Website | http://www2.physics.umanitoba.ca/u/samar/ |
Samar Safi-Harb is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba and a Canada Research Chair in Supernova Remnant Astrophysics and Extreme Astrophysics. [1] [2] [3] She was the Vice President of the Canadian Astronomical Society from 2020 to 2021. [4]
Samar Safi-Harb grew up in Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. [5] Despite loving physics in high school,Safi-Harb thought she would become a medical doctor and started a pre-medical physics undergraduate degree at the American University of Beirut. [5] [6] [7] After her undergraduate degree,she chose to follow her passion in physics and pursued graduate studies in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,receiving her MSc in 1993 and her PhD in 1997. [5] [8]
Following her graduate studies,Safi-Harb completed a fellowship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where she worked in the high energy astrophysics lab. [5] In 2000,she left NASA to start the University of Manitoba's graduate astrophysics program. [5] [6] [7]
Safi-Harb's research focuses on high energy studies of the remnants leftover by supernovae,including neutron stars and their nebulae. [1] [9] In 2021,Safi-Harb and her former graduate student Harsha Blumer published their results from their observations of the magnetar Swift J1818.0−1607,first detected by the NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2020,using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. [10] [11] [12]
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