Johanna Sofia Nikolina Feltzing (born 26 June 1965 in Högsbo, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Lund University since 2011.
[1] Feltzing completed her PhD at Uppsala University in 1996, publishing a dissertation about the chemical evolution of the Milky Way.
Feltzing's research primarily concerns understanding galaxy formation and evolution by studying the stars and gas of the Milky Way.
In 2013, Feltzing was awarded the Strömer-Ferrnerska prize of 20,000SEK by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for "her spectroscopic and photometric studies which have been crucial contributions to a deeper understanding of the development of the Milky Way and its surrounding galaxies.
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