Nuria Calvet

Núria Pilar Calvet Cuni (born 1950) is a Venezuelan astronomer who studies star formation and the evolution of protoplanetary disks around young stars.

She is Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.

She continued her studies at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1975 and completing her Ph.D. in 1981.

[4] Calvet was a 1979 recipient of the Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize, of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkley, for outstanding achievement in early scientific research career as a graduate student.

[5] Calvet was a 1987 recipient of the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize, the highest level private-sector science award of Venezuela.