Sera Markoff

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Sera Markoff
Born (1971-07-06) 6 July 1971 (age 54)
Alma mater University of Arizona Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, University of Cambridge
Thesis High Energy Processes in the Galactic Center  (2000)
Website www.seramarkoff.com

Sera Brodie Markoff (born 6 July 1971) is an American astrophysicist and is the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope team that produced the first image of a black hole. [1]

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Education and career

Sera Markoff studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was awarded a Bachelor's of Science in Physics in 1993. In 1996 she gained a Master of Arts from the University of Arizona in theoretical astrophysics, and in 2000 she gained a PhD in the same field. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn from 2000 to 2002 and a National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2005. In 2006 she joined the University of Amsterdam as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and to professor in 2017. [2] From 2015 she was a full professor of theoretical high energy astrophysics at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, [3] until her appointment as Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in December 2025. [4]

In 2019 she became editor of the journal Astroparticle Physics . [5]

Research

Sera Markoff's research focuses on the interface between astrophysics and particle physics, in particular problems relating to processes occurring around dense objects such as black holes. She is a member of a number of large scale research projects including the Low-Frequency ARay (LOFAR), [2] Cherenkov Telescope Array [2] and Event Horizon Telescope, which produced the first image of a black hole. [6] She is a member of the leadership of the Event Horizon Telescope project where she serves as a member of the science council and as one of the working group coordinators. [1]

Awards and honors

Significant publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Organization". Event Horizon Telescope .
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Sera Markoff - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  4. ↑ Bothwell, Matthew (2025-12-08). "Professor Sera Markoff appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at University of Cambridge". www.ast.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
  5. ↑ "New Editors for Astroparticle Physics" . Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "First-ever picture of a black hole unveiled". National Geographic. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Sera Markoff". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "Willem de Graaff Prize". Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society/Koninklijke Nederlandse Astronomenclub (kna-rnas.nl).
  9. ↑ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (1 August 2015). "Astronomer Sera Markoff appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl.
  10. ↑ "Vici awards 2015". www.nwo.nl. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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