Manuela Temmer has been an Associate Professor at the University of Graz since 2016, where she also leads the Heliospheric Physics Research Group (swe.uni-graz.at). She completed her PhD at the University of Graz in 2004. Several prestigious self-funded research projects—including the FWF Erwin Schrödinger and Elise Richter fellowships, as well as the ÖAW APART scholarship—supported her postdoctoral work at the Hvar Observatory of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto (USA). Her research focuses on large-scale magnetic structures in the solar wind and transient coronal mass ejections, with particular interest in their solar sources, as well as interactions and evolution through interplanetary space.