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Paola Caselli

Education and career[edit]

Caselli was born on 26 July 1966 in Follonica, Italy,^[2] and as a teenager was inspired to work in space science and molecular clouds by a teacher who gave her Fred Hoyle's 1957 science fiction novel The Black Cloud to read.^[1] She earned a laurea in astronomy and physics in 1990, from the University of Bologna, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994.^[2][3]

After postdoctoral research at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, she became a researcher at the Arcetri ObservatoryinFlorence, Italy, in 1996, and remained there until 2005. For the next two years, she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and at Harvard University.^[3] In 2007 she became a professor of astronomy at the University of Leeds, and in 2011 became head of astrophysics at Leeds. She joined the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics as its director in 2014.^[2]

While continuing at the Max Planck Institute, she has also held temporary positions as Hasselblad Guest Professor at the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden and as Blaauw Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.^[3]

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