Career
Baliunas was originally a research associate of the Harvard College Observatory in 1980 and has been an astrophysicist in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1989.
She has served on the scientific advisory board, and the board of directors of the Marshall Institute.
Baliunas has also been a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, an adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, and was deputy director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003.
She has been a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, International Astronomical Union, and Sigma XI.
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