Prof. Louise Harra

BIOGRAPHY

Louise Harra is an affiliated Professor at ETH Zürich in addition to being the director of the Physikalisch-​Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC) in Davos, Switzerland. The institute is a world-leader in solar irradiance and ozone measurements, and builds ground-based and space-based instruments. Before joining PMOD/WRC, Professor Harra worked as a UK project scientist for the solar-B EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), which was launched in 2006, after which she took over as principal investigator of the project until 2019. She is currently a co-principal investigator on the EUV Imager (EUI) and SPICE instruments onboard the ESA Solar Orbiter mission, as well as a co-investigator on the NASA IRIS mission. Professor Harra’s research interests are in solar physics, particularly solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar wind formation.