Born in 1958,Burchat grew up in Barry's Bay,Ontario,Canada,and attended Madawaska Valley District High School.[5] In 1981 she graduated with a B.S. in applied science and engineering from the University of Toronto,and earned a Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University in 1986.[6]
Career
Burchat held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California,Santa Cruz from 1986 to 1988,after which she joined the faculty until 1995.[7] She has been a member of the Stanford Physics faculty since 1995,[7] and served as the chair of the department from 2007 to 2010.[8]
Burchat has also been interested in investigating the cosmological evolution of the Universe. She joined the international community developing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope,aiming to study gravitational bending of light by dark matter and the evolution of dark energy.[9] Her 2008 TED talk,"Shedding light on dark matter",explores these two components making up about 96 percent of the universe.[10]
Awards and honors
2020 —Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award,University of Toronto
2004 —Sapp Family University Fellow in UG Education,Stanford University
2001 —Fellow,American Physical Society,cited "For her contributions to the understanding of heavy quark physics,particularly in semileptonic weak decays,in mixing of neutral D and B mesons,and in CP violation."
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