Sallie Baliunas

PhD, is Senior Staff Physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is Deputy Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. Dr. Baliunas serves as Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C., and chairs the Institute’s Science Advisory Board. Dr. Baliunas is also an Adjunct Professor at Tennessee State University and contributing editor to World Climate Report. Her awards include the Newton-Lacy-Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Petr [sic] Beckmann Award for Scientific Freedom and the Bok Prize from Harvard University. She has written over 200 scientific research articles. In 1991, Discover magazine profiled her as one of America’s outstanding women scientists. She is technical consultant for a science-fiction television series, Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict. Dr. Baliunas received her MA and PhD degrees in Astrophysics from Harvard University.