Karin Lind is a Swedish astronomer whose research involves spectroscopy of stars in order to determine their chemical composition, and the use of this information to understand the origin of heavy elements in supernova explosions[1] and the way radiation and energy moves through stellar atmospheres.
[1] She is an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University,[2] and a participant and survey builder in the GALAH collaboration, which uses the Anglo-Australian Telescope's HERMES instrument to map the chemical compositions of stars in the Milky Way.
[2] She completed her PhD through the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2010; her dissertation, Chemical analysis of globular star clusters : theory and observation, was jointly supervised by Francesca Primas and Martin Asplund.
[2] As well as receiving a 2014 Marie Curie Fellowship, Lind was a 2015 recipient of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, funding her work as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
[1] She was the 2023 recipient of the Strömer-Ferrnerska Award of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "for world-leading research in stellar spectroscopy to investigate the history of the Milky Way".