Prof. Merav Opher is a Professor in the Astronomy Department at Boston University. Opher has been honored to receive numerous awards such as the Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard Radcliffe Institute in 2021, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008. In 2024 she was elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow and in 2025 she received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Among them, the PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2008); as well as the NSF Young Investigator CAREER Award (2008).

She is currently the director of SHIELD , a NASA Drive Science Center a multi -instititional effort with more than 40 leading scientists with a goal to create a digital “twin” of the heliosphere. She has served the community in many leadership positions, including: Editor of Geophysical Research Letters; member of the NASA Heliophysics Mission Senior Review Panel; the Solar and Heliospheric panel of the 2010 Decadal Survey of the Solar and Space Physics by the National Research Council; and the Committee on Solar and Space Physics of the National Academy of Sciences.