Guinevere Kauffmann

Guinevere Kauffmann
Born 1968
California
Residence Germany
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Spouse(s) Simon White
Awards Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2007)
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics,
MPI for Astrophysics

Guinevere Alice Mei-Ing Kauffmann is an American astrophysicist. She is known for her work studying galaxies among other subjects.

Academic career

Kauffmann obtained a BSc(Hons) in applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town in 1988 and a MSc in astronomy in 1990. She obtained her Ph.D in astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1993, working with Simon White.

She was a member of the Miller Research Fellows program at the University of California, Berkeley and was then employed as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. She became head of a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in 2003. As of 2013, she is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Her areas of research interest include models of galaxy formation, analysis of observed properties of galaxies including their atomic and molecular gas, active galactic nuclei, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.[1]

Kauffmann has coordinated a Marie Curie Research Training Network of the European Union that brought together researchers from all over Europe for interdisciplinary projects.[2]

Awards

In 2007, Kauffmann received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.

In 2009, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

In April 2010, she was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, with the Cross of Merit (on ribbon) and the certificate in the name of the German President. The award ceremony was carried out by Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer on 21 April 2010.[4]

In 2010, she was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

In 2012, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

Bullying Allegations

Several emails obtained by BuzzFeed News Germany revealed that Guinevere Kauffmann has been harassing and bullying students and scientists for year.[5][6][7][8]

Leaked emails published by BuzzFeed News Germany also include what has been described as racist, sexist and homophobic statements directed at employees and students.[9][10]

Responding to questions by the journal Nature, Kauffmann denied the accusations of racism, claiming that she is merely interested in cultural differences between people and her comments have been taken out of context. She characterized the alleged bullying as "very high pressure supervision", acknowledging however that such mentoring style "has now become unacceptable" and claiming to have changed her behavior substantially after complaints were received. [11]

To this date, she remains director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  2. ↑ Garching, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik,. "MPA :: Federal Cross of Merit for Guinevere Kauffmann". www.mpa-garching.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  3. ↑ http://www.imprs-astro.mpg.de/CVs/kaufmann.html%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  4. ↑ Garching, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik,. "MPA :: Federal Cross of Merit for Guinevere Kauffmann". www.mpa-garching.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  5. ↑ "No place for bullies in science". www.nature.com. Nature.
  6. ↑ "Max Planck astrophysicist at centre of bullying allegations speaks up". www.nature.com. Nature.
  7. ↑ "Willkür, Angst, zerstörte Träume". faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine.
  8. ↑ "Mobbing-Vorwürfe erschüttern Garchinger Vorzeige-Institut". Süddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  9. ↑ Germany, BuzzFeed. "A Star Scientist From The Max Planck Society Allegedly Harassed And Bullied Her Colleagues". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Lab heads should learn to talk about racism". www.nature.com. Nature. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Max Planck astrophysicist at centre of bullying allegations speaks up".


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