Carolina Ödman-Govender (PH'00, DR'03)

Dr. Carolina Ödman-Govender studied physics engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne before completing a Ph.D. in theoretical cosmology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She has then consulted for UNESCO.
In 2005, she joined Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands where she developed Universe Awareness, an international astronomy education programme for which she was awarded the 2012 Science Magazine Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE).
In 2011, she became the director of academic development of the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative and since 2012 she works as an independent on various science for development projects. She remains a member of the Universe Awareness Project Board.