Member Profile: France A. Cordova
31 May 2018France A. Cordova, an astrophysicist, was admitted as an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
Dr. Cordova is the fourteenth director of the National Science Foundation, President Emerita of Purdue University, and Chancellor Emerita of the University of California, Riverside, where she was a distinguished professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Her scientific contributions have been in the areas of observational and experimental astrophysics, multi-spectral research on x-ray and gamma ray sources, and space-borne instrumentation.