Name: Isabella Gerrard

Field: Computational Star Formation

Bio: I am currently a PhD candidate at the Australian National University (Canberra), originally from Bega NSW (yes, like the cheese!)

Likes: Watercolours, gardening, lowering my carbon footprint

Fun fact: I have had every different colour of hair except green. Green is for grass, not hair.

Contributions to Science: The aim of my PhD is to make the most realistic computational models of how stars from to date. Using these models we hope to better understand the circumstellar environment in which planets form.

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