Moira Jardine

Moira Jardine
Born
Moira Mary Jardine
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews (PhD)
SpouseAndrew Collier Cameron
AwardsSuffrage Science award (2019)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
University of Sussex
ThesisSteady models for magnetic reconnection (1989)
Doctoral advisorEric Priest
Websitestar-www.st-and.ac.uk/~mmj/

Moira Mary Jardine FRSE is a British astrophysicist with an interest in young stars, particularly the structure of their magnetic fields and coronae, and the mechanisms by which they interact with their disks and planets. She was promoted to a Personal Chair in 2012, making her the first female professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews.