Veronica Bindi

Veronica Bindi is full professor and chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For more than ten years, she has been part of the team at CERN (Switzerland) that led the construction, integration, and operation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) installed on the International Space Station on May 2011 to search for dark matter and study galactic cosmic rays. She is working on AMS data analysis with a particular focus on solar modulation,...See more

Veronica Bindi is full professor and chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For more than ten years, she has been part of the team at CERN (Switzerland) that led the construction, integration, and operation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) installed on the International Space Station on May 2011 to search for dark matter and study galactic cosmic rays. She is working on AMS data analysis with a particular focus on solar modulation, heliophysics, and space radiation. She has received a National Science Foundation career award and a grant from NASA supporting future manned missions to Mars. See less