Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (born 1964, Barcelona) is an astrophysicist working as a professor at the University of Barcelona. Her work has included research on type Ia supernovae. In 2004, she led the team that searched for the companion star to the white dwarf that became supernova SN 1572, observed by Tycho Brahe, among others. Ruiz-Lapuente's research on supernovae contributed to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Career overview

Ruiz-Lapuente completed her degree in Physics at the University of Barcelona, then did her doctoral studies at the University of Barcelona, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and the European Southern Observatory. She then went on to become a research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. The research she contributed to also resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize to her team's lead researcher, Saul Perlmutter, which he shared with the High-z Supernova Search Team's directors.

Notable publications

As of 2012, Pilar-Ruiz had authored more than 130 journal articles.

Some articles include :

Nebular spectra of type IA supernovae as probes for extragalactic distances, reddening, and nucleosynthesis A possible low-mass type Ia supernova Tycho Brahe's supernova: light from centuries past Dark energy, gravitation and supernovae

She has also written a book titled "El enigma de la realidad. Las entidades de la física de Aristóteles a Einstein."