Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
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Texas Tech University (M. Sc.)
Bilkent University (B. Sc.)
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil | |
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| Education | University of Minnesota (Ph.D.) Texas Tech University (M. Sc.) Bilkent University (B. Sc.) |
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| Institutions | Dartmouth College University of Arizona University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Testing supermassive black hole scaling relations using cosmological simulations and optical/near-IR imaging data (2018) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marc Seigar |
| Website | https://www.burcinmutlupakdil.net/ |
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil is a Turkish-American astrophysicist, and Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. She formerly served as a National Science Foundation (NSF) and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. 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.[1] She was also a 2018 TED Fellow, and a 2020 TED Senior Fellow.
Mutlu-Pakdil grew up in Turkey, where she loved physics and the night sky.[2] She attended Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School and was the first generation of her family to attend college.[3] She completed her undergraduate studies in physics at Bilkent University in 2009.[4] She moved to Texas Tech University for her graduate studies, gaining a master's degree in physics in 2012.[4] In 2017 she earned her PhD in astrophysics with the dissertation Testing Supermassive Black Hole Scaling Relations Using Cosmological Simulations and Optical/Near-IR Imaging Data from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.[4][5]
