Gisela Ortiz, former PhD student at the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (UNAM) and LMT collaborator, has been awarded the IAU prize for best 2017 PhD thesis in Fundamental Astronomy.

LMT collaborator wins IAU PhD Prize

Gisela Ortiz, former PhD student at the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (UNAM) and LMT collaborator, has been awarded the IAU prize for best 2017 PhD thesis in Fundamental Astronomy. Gisela contributed to the development of the LMT’s capabilities to participate in Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations and the Event Horizon Telescope.

IAU Announcement
Press release (IRyA-UNAM)