Eve Lee | |
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| Alma mater | University of TorontoUniversity of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Thesis | The Late-Time Formation and Dynamical Signatures of Small Planets (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene Chiang |
Eve Jihyun Lee is a Canadian astrophysicist, and an assistant professor of physics atMcGill University. Her research concernsstar formation andplanet formation, including the formation ofsuper-Earths.
Lee studied astronomy and physics at theUniversity of Toronto, with a minor in mathematics. She graduated with high distinction in 2011, under the mentorship of Norman Murray, and was granted a master's degree there in 2012. Next, she went to theUniversity of California, Berkeley for continued graduate study in astrophysics. She earned a second master's degree in 2014 and completed her Ph.D. in 2017. Her doctoral dissertation,The Late-Time Formation and Dynamical Signatures of Small Planets, was supervised by Eugene Chiang.[1]
After postdoctoral research as a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at theCalifornia Institute of Technology, Lee became an assistant professor of physics at McGill University in 2019.[1]
Lee was the 2022 recipient of theAnnie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, of theAmerican Astronomical Society, "for her illuminating work on the formation of stars, debris disks, and planets",[2] and the 2022 recipient of the Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of theAstronomical Society of India.[3] She was selected as a keynote speaker at the 2024 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.[4]
