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Samar Safi-Harb is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba and a Canada Research Chair in Supernova Remnant Astrophysics.[1][2] She is currently the Vice President of the Canadian Astronomical Society.[3]

Samar Safi-Harb
Title	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Academic work
Discipline	Astrophysics
Sub-discipline	Supernova remnants
Institutions	University of Manitoba
Website	http://www2.physics.umanitoba.ca/u/samar/

Background and education

Samar Safi-Harb grew up in Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.[4] Despite loving physics in high school, Safi-Harb thought she would become a medical doctor and started a pre-medical physics undergraduate degree at the American University of Beirut.[4][5][6] After her undergraduate degree, she chose to follow her passion in physics and pursued graduate studies in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receiving her MSc in 1993 and her PhD in 1997.[4][7]

Following her graduate studies, Safi-Harb completed a fellowship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where she worked in the high energy astrophysics lab.[4] In 2000, she left NASA to start the University of Manitoba's graduate astrophysics program.[4][5][6]

Research

Safi-Harb's research focuses on high energy studies of the remnants leftover by supernovae, including neutron stars and their nebulae.[1][8] In 2021, Safi-Harb and her former graduate student Harsha Blumer published their results from their observations of the magnetar Swift J1818.0−1607, first detected by the NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2020, using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.[9][10][11]

References

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