Background
Renu Malhotra was born in New Delhi in 1961. Her father was an aircraft engineer at Indian Airlines.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Renu Malhotra
Edit ProfileEducation
She attended the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, graduating with a master"s degree in physics in 1983.
Career
The asteroid 6698 Malhotra is named for her. Her family moved to Hyderabad when she was a child. She attended Cornell University where she was introduced to non-linear dynamics by Mitchell Feigenbaum.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the university in 1988.
Her Doctor of Philosophy advisor was Stanley F. Dermott. With the help of Peter Goldreich who had read her paper on the moons of Uranus, she obtained a postdoctoral research position at California Institute of Technology.
She then worked for nine years at Lunar and Planetary Institute where she completed work on Pluto"s orbital resonance and predicted the resonant structure of the Kuiper Belt. After leaving the Institute, Malhotra went to work as a Professor of Solar System Dynamics at the University of Arizona"s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
Achievements
-
Born