Ineke De Moortel is a Belgian applied mathematician in Scotland, where she is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, director of research in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews, and president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Her research concerns the computational and mathematical modelling of solar physics, and particularly of the sun's corona.

Education and career

De Moortel earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1997 at KU Leuven. She completed a Ph.D. in solar physics in 2001 at the University of St Andrews; her dissertation, ''Theoretical & Observational Aspects of Wave Propagation in the Solar Corona'', was supervised by

Alan Hood Alan William Hood is a professor in the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is best known for his wave heating theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun The Sun is the sta ...

. She remained at St Andrews as a postdoctoral researcher and research fellow, becoming a reader there in 2008 and a professor in 2013. Since 2019 she has been a member of the editorial board at the journal '' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society''. De Moortel sits on the judging panel for the

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Recognition

In 2005, De Moortel became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2009 she won the

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...

in Astronomy and Astrophysics. She was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015, and previously co-chaired its affiliate society, the Young Academy of Scotland.

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