Blakesley Burkhart

Blakesley Burkhart
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forMagnetohydrodynamics research
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
ThesisNew frontiers for diagnosing the turbulent nature of the multiphase magnetized interstellar medium (2014)
Doctoral advisorAlex Lazarian
Websitewww.mhdturbulence.com

Blakesley Burkhart is an astrophysicist. She is the winner of the 2017 Robert J. Trumpler Award awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, which recognizes a Ph.D. thesis that is "particularly significant to astronomy." She also is the winner of the 2019 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy and the 2022 winner of The American Physical Society's Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. The awards both cited her work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and for developing innovative techniques for comparing observable astronomical phenomena with theoretical models.

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