Carolina Ödman-Govender (German pronunciation: [karoˈliːnaː ˈœtman ˈgo:vəndɐ]) (3 July 1974[3] – 15 November 2022[2]) was a Swiss physicist and academic who was Professor of Astrophysics at South Africa's University of the Western Cape.

[4] From 2004 to 2005 she was a Marie Curie Skłodowska postdoctoral scholar at Universita degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

[9] She worked in cosmology on several subjects as dark energy, analysis of cosmic microwave background data, and inflation.

[4] Amongst other achievements, this involved setting up the Astronomy for Africa taskforce and leading Universe Awareness (UNAWE).

[15] In 2012 she received the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) award for her work on Universe Awareness.