German-American planetary scientist and cosmochemist
Katharina Lodders is a German-American
planetary scientist and
cosmochemist who works as a research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at
Washington University in St. Louis, where she co-directs the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory.[1] Her research concerns the chemical composition of solar and stellar environments, including the atmospheres of planets,
exoplanets, and
brown dwarfs, and the study of the temperatures at which elements condense in stellar environments.[2][3]
Education and career
Lodders completed her doctorate in 1991 at the
University of Mainz, with research on the cosmochemistry of
trace elements performed at the
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.[4] She joined Washington University in St. Louis as a postdoctoral researcher in 1992 before continuing there as a research professor.[2]
The Planetary Scientist's Companion (with Bruce Fegley, Jr., Oxford University Press, 1998)[6]
Chemistry of the Solar System (with Bruce Fegley, Jr., Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010)[7]
Recognition
Lodders won the 2021
Leonard Medal of
The Meteoritical Society, its highest award, "for her work on the condensation of presolar grains in stellar atmospheres and her compilation of the Solar System Abundances of the Elements and the condensation temperatures of the elements".[8]
References
^"Katharina Lodders", People, Washington University in St. Louis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4 May 2017, retrieved 2022-09-05
^"Katharina Lodders", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-09-05
^Ulvestad, Jim (May–June 2010),
"News from NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)"(PDF), AAS Newsletter (152): 8–9; Solomatov, Slava (Fall 2013),
"Overview"(PDF), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Newsletter (13), Washington University in St. Louis: 2
Cain, Joseph (October 2001), The Leading Edge, 20 (10), Society of Exploration Geophysicists: 1190–1191,
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