Amina Helmi

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Amina Helmi (6 October 1970) is an Argentine astronomer and professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Education Helmi was educated at Leiden University where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 with a thesis on the formation of the galactic halo, supervised by Tim de Zeeuw and Simon White. She also studies the nature of dark matter. In her research, Helmi uses computer simulations as well as observational data from for example the Gaia space telescope.

Awards and honors In 2019, Helmi was named one of the four winners of the Spinoza Prize. She was awarded membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

She was awarded the Christiaan Huygensprize in 2004 and the Pastoor Schmeitsprize in 2010.

The Helmi stream is named after her and she was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2019.

In 2021, Helmi won the Brouwer Award from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society.

In 2026, she was awarded the Kavli Prize in the category of "Astrophysics".