2016 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 11-15, 2016)

February 10 - 15, 2016

Thaisa Storchi Bergmann: Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of the Universe

Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Dr. Thaisa Storchi Bergmann is an astronomer with a research focus on super-massive black holes. Using astronomical observations, she studies the phenomenon of nuclear activity in galaxies in relation to the properties of the host galaxy. She has a Ph.D. in physics from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with post-docs studies at the University of Maryland and Space Telescope Science Institute. She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and TWAS Academy of Sciences. Storchi Bergmann received a 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for “outstanding work on super-massive black holes in the centers of galaxies and associated regions of dense gas, dust, and young stars surrounding them, as well as their role in the evolution of galaxies.”