Ewine van Dishoeck
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory,
and the president of the International Astronomical Union. She is one of the pioneers of astrochemistry, and her research is aimed at determination of the structure of cosmic objects using their molecular spectra.
Van Dishoeck works on interstellar molecules; physical and chemical evolution during star formation and planet formation; submillimeter and mid-infrared astronomy; basic molecular processes; and the radiative transfer of line and continuum radiation.
She was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.Awards
Van Dishoeck was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society in 1994, the Spinoza Prize in 2000, and the Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001. Since 2001, she is a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences as well of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2013, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She received the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award in 2014, and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2015. In 2018, Van Dishoeck was awarded the James Craig Watson Medal and the Kavli Prize for astrophysics. In the same year, she also has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society.Personal life
Van Dishoeck is married to Tim de Zeeuw, also a professor of astronomy at Leiden University and from September 2007 to 2017, Director General of the European Southern Observatory.
