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Conny Aerts obtained her master in mathematics diploma from Antwerp University in 1988 and defended her PhD thesis in astrophysics at the University of Leuven in 1993. Through highly competitive personal grants, she continued her career as postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders from 1993 until 2001, performing numerous stays abroad in Europe, Chile and the USA. She was appointed as Lecturer (2001), as Associate Professor (2004) and subsequently as Full professor (2007) at the University of Leuven. Since 2004, she also leads the Chair in Asteroseismology at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Conny's research expertise covers broad fields of stellar physics, including stellar structure, stellar evolution, variable stars, and asteroseismology, covering many different types of stars. She is one of the pioneers of the research domain of asteroseismology, which received major attention since the launch and operations of the MOST (2003), CoRoT (2006), and Kepler (2009) space missions. Prior to the era of high-precision space photometry, Conny focused on high-precision spectroscopy, developing rigorous mathematical methods to detect and identify non-radial pulsation modes in optically bright stars. Mining of large databases is another key expertise Conny's team developed, with the design and application of statistical classification methods based on multivariate Gaussian mixtures. This led to the discovery and interpretation of numerous new gravity-mode pulsators in the Hipparcos, CoRoT, and Kepler databases, after intensive ground-based multi-site spectroscopic follow-up campaigns. Along with her appointment on the Chair in Asteroseismology at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2004, Conny introduced herself into the topic of subdwarf stars and their binarity and pulsations.
In 2008, Conny was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, PROSPERITY, which allowed her to evaluate stellar evolution models with unprecedented probing power. This was achieved by exploiting the huge amount of high-precision data from CoRoT and Kepler through novel methods developed in her team. Throughout the years, her PhD students made major contributions to the field, such as the discovery of non-radial pulsation modes, of dipole mixed modes, and of non-rigid rotation in red giant stars, following earlier measurements of core overshooting and core rotation in massive stars. The successes of PROSPERITY culminated in the 2012 Francqui Prize, also termed Belgian Nobel Prize, where Conny was the first woman to receive this highly prestigious award in the category of Exact Sciences since its creation in 1933.
Until 2014, Conny was the supervisor of 39 Master thesis students, of 22 graduated PhD students, and of 14 externally recruited postdocs. Since 2001, she
has been teaching 4 courses in the Master Astronomy & Astrophysics at Leuven and Nijmegen universities anually. In addition, she is involved in several
mentor-mentee programmes. Finally, Conny is member of numerous international expert committees and advisory boards worldwide. As Belgian PI, she is presently heavily involved in the preparation of the approved ESA M3 space mission PLATO (launch 2024).
Conny is married and mother of two children, born in 1994 and 1998. When not working and not with her children, you can find her jogging, dining in fancy
restaurants with husband and friends, @ the movie theatre, @ the sauna, or sipping champagne while reading a novel.
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