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Leticia Carigi

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María Leticia Carigi Delgado is a Venezuelan astronomer specializing in cosmochemistry, including the overall metallicity of galaxies and galactic halos,[1] and the evolution of galaxies.[2] She works in Mexico as a researcher and professor in the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Education and career

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Carigi earned master's and doctoral degrees in astronomy through research in Venezuela's Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1994, at the Central University of Venezuela, with the dissertation Evolución química de la vecindad solar con rendimientos químicos estelares dependientes de la metalicidad [Chemical evolution of the solar neighborhood with stellar chemical yields dependant on metallicity], supervised by Gustavo Ramón Bruzual Alfonso.[3]

She came to the UNAM Institute of Astronomy as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Manuel Peimbert,[1] and has been a research professor there since 1995.[4]

Recognition

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Carigi is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[2] In 2010 UNAM gave her their Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz prize.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Dr. Leticia Carigi Delgado", Researchers, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-10
  2. ^ a b Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-10
  3. ^ "María Leticia Carigi", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-12-10
  4. ^ "Leticia Carigi", ORCiD, retrieved 2022-12-10