Ludmilla Kolokolova
University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
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Ludmilla Kolokolova started to study polarization of astronomical objects when she was a graduate student at the Main Observatory of the Ukrainian Academy of Science (Kyiv); her thesis title was “Polarization of the Light Scattered by Surfaces of Atmosphereless Cosmic Bodies.” Later she continued studying polarization of cosmic dust at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Goettingen, Germany) and at the University of Florida, where she was involved in the experiments using a microwave-to-visible analog facility. In 2004, she became a research scientist at the Astronomy Department at the University of Maryland. Her research is dedicated to remote sensing of different types of cosmic dust, including cometary and circumstellar dust. She has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers; she was the main editor of the book “Polarimetry of starts and planetary systems” (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
