Burcin Mutlu Pakdil

Burcin Mutlu Pakdil

Full Name: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil

Arabic: بورسين موتلو باكديل

Origin: Istanbul, Turkey

Born:

Famous for: Astrophysicist

Contribution:

Her research led to a discovery of an extremely rare galaxy with a unique double-ringed elliptical structure, which is now commonly referred to as Burcin’s Galaxy

Awards and honours

  • NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow
  • KICP Fellow
  • 2020 TED Senior Fellow
  • 2019 AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
  • 2018 Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World – Academic Leadership and Accomplishment
  • 2018 TED Fellow
  • 2017 Ten Outstanding Young Persons, Turkey – Scientific Leadership Award
  • 2017 APS Woman Physicist of July
  • 2017 Linda Larson Woman of the Year
  • 2016 Dr. Nancy “Rusty” Barceló Scholarship

Articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bur%C3%A7in_Mutlu-Pakdil

https://www.burcinmutlupakdil.net/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/meet-woman-discovered-new-type-galaxy-burcin-mutlu-pakdil-astrophysics