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Veronica Bindi
Veronica Bindi

Dr. Veronica Bindi

Physics Professor at University of Hawaii

Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa.

Hired in 2012 as an Assistant Professor to start a new research group focused on the indirect search of Dark Matter and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). For more than 10 years at CERN in Switzerland, she has been part of the team, as Time of Flight detector and trigger expert, that led the construction, integration and operation of AMS, installed on the International Space Station in 2011.

Dr. Bindi introduced the new idea of using AMS as a heliophysics experiment and expanded the AMS’s goals to Solar modulation, Solar Energetic Particles and Space radiation. She is working with experts from universities in USA and in Europe and research institutes such as NASA and CERN. She was awarded the NSF Career Award in 2015 (for 5 years) and She is the only PI of a long term grant (2014 to 2020) funded by NASA for a total of $2M in research, that provides measurements of space radiation for the next human missions to Moon and Mars. In 2020 she received a grant from NASA for three years of about $1M to study and forecast space weather.

Dr. Bindi organized yearly international workshops focused on astroparticles, heliophysics and space radiation with the aim to foster a deeper understanding within these disciplines. She published several papers (with high number of citations), proceedings and gave invited talks at international conferences and colloquia at universities. She was Guest Editor of a Special Topic for the scientific journal, Advances in Space Research and reviewer for several peer reviewed journals. She is co-editor of a book Introduction to the Physics of Cosmic Rays: The Cosmic Laboratory for higher division courses, publisher Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Since 2020 she is American Physical Society (APS) Far West Section (FWS) Executive Committee member.

She mentors postdocs, graduate students and several undergraduate students from UH and other universities in US and in Europe. Under her guidance, her students got several fellowships from: Space Grant Consortium, CERN, NASA Goddard, NASA Earth and Space Science. She teaches graduate and undergraduate students. She has received increasing student evaluations over the semesters and she was nominated a few time for an Excellence in Teaching award. She has been Faculty Resident Director for Study Abroad at the Lorenzo de Medici (LdM) Institute in Italy in Spring 2016. She has designed new courses for UH Manoa and LdM and help in expanding opportunities for STEM courses. Since 2020, she is board member of the Study Abroad Council.

Dr. Bindi is TED educator and Mentor of the QuarkNet program in Hawaii. Her TED an- imation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91801Y1lsCg had more than 140K views). She develops educational activities for high and middle school students. She organizes and participates in many educational workshops for teachers and students across the Hawaii islands and in many outreach activities in USA and in Europe. Dedicated to increasing the diversity in STEM fields, in 2013, She was featured by the European Institute for Gender Equality as Women Inspiring Europe, to promotes the positive influence of women on breaking gender stereotypes. In 2020, Dr. Bindi was Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Research for Diversity and Inclusion at UH Manoa.

In 2019, she worked for one year at NASA Headquarter to work in the Science Mission Directorate with a double assignment: Program Scientist in the Heliophysics Division and Policy Analyst in the Science Management and Strategic Team and this experience further enriched her experience.

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