At a May 10 reception held in the CNSI Auditorium, Earth & Space Sciences’ Hilke Schlichting was awarded the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA. This award honors important postdoctoral contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and public service.
Hilke is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in the formation of planetary systems and has been a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA since 2010.