Elsa Recillas

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Elsa Recillas Pishmish (also published as Elsa Recillas-Cruz) is a Mexican astronomer who studies how light from galaxies and their brightest stars, and from emission nebulae, changes over time. She is a professor and researcher at the Mexican National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics. Recillas earned a physics degree from UNAM in 1968, a master's degree in astronomy from the University of Sussex in 1971, another master's in physics from UNAM in 1983, and a PhD in 1988. With her daughter Irene Cruz-González, she coauthored a book on Galileo: El hombre de la torre inclinada: Galileo Galilei (1985). She comes from a family of scientists: her mother Paris Pişmiş was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer, her father Félix Recillas Juárez a mathematician, and her brother Sevín Recillas Pishmish also a mathematician. She is married to astronomer Carlos Cruz-González, and their daughter Irene Cruz-González is also an astronomer. Recillas is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.