Moira Mary Jardine FRSE[2][3] is a British astrophysicist with an interest in young stars, particularly the structure of their magnetic fields and coronae, and the mechanisms by which they interact with their disks and planets.

[5] Jardine was educated at the University of St Andrews where she was awarded a PhD in 1989 for research investigating steady state models of magnetic reconnection supervised by Eric Priest.

Jardine's research is summarised as: "By studying solar-like stars and their impact on orbiting planets, Moira aims to understand the origins of our solar system and the conditions that allowed life to evolve on Earth.

In particular, she studies the magnetic fields of stars, since these power both the hot, X-ray-emitting corona and the supersonic wind that together can ionise or erode a planet’s atmosphere.

As inputs for her models, Moira uses both magnetic maps of stellar surfaces (derived from spectropolarimetry) and photometric observations from satellite missions.