Barbara Ercolano is an Italian astrophysicist known for her work on interstellar dust,

star formation Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in The "medium" is present further soon.-->interstellar space

, and protoplanetary disks. She is the Professor for Theoretical Astrophysics in the at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. Ercolano is originally from Naples, and studied astrophysics at University College London. After postdoctoral research at University College London, the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, and the University of Cambridge, she became a lecturer in astrophysics at the University of Exeter. She moved to the University of Munich as a professor in 2010. Ercolano is the 2010 winner of the Fowler Award in Astronomy of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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