Karen Bjorkman
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Karen Beth Shipley Bjorkman is an American astronomer whose research applies polarimetry to the study of massive stars and circumstellar discs. She is Distinguished University Professor and Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professor in Astronomy at the University of Toledo, and the university's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.[1]
Bjorkman earned her Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation, Ultraviolet and infrared studies of Be stars, was supervised by Theodore Snow.[2]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin,[3] she joined the University of Toledo faculty in 1996.[4] She became dean of the university's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 2010, and was named interim provost and executive vice president in 2019.[5]
