Beatriz Barbuy

Beatriz Barbuy (born February 16, 1950 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian astrophysicist and university professor.

life and work

Barbuy finished her studies in physics at the University of São Paulo with a master’s degree and moved to France in 1978, where she did research in the group of Roger Cayrel at the Paris Observatory. In 1982 she received her PhD in astrophysics from the University of Paris VII and returned to Brazil in 2009. She is a full professor at the Institute for Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo, where she has taught for over 30 years, and was a visiting researcher at the Lick Observatory on the summit of Mount Hamilton in California , at the Institute for Astronomy (UK) and at the European observatory in Garching near Munich . She carried out around 40 observation missions at ESO ( European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere ) in Chile and participated in observation programs of the Hubble Space Telescope . In 2009 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Brazilians by Época magazine .

Globular Cluster and Galaxy Formation: M31, the Milky Way, and Implications for Globular Cluster Systems of Spiral Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 614, Number 1, 2014
The Stellar Populations of Galaxies, Kluwer, 1992 (also: Springer Netherlands, 1992)

personal data
SURNAME	Barbuy, Beatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Silveira Barbuy, Beatriz Leonor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian astrophysicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	São Paulo