Floor Broekgaarden, Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows hosted at Columbia University
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PIE will be hosting a social event to drink tea and get to know Floor Broekgaarden on Tuesday, 27 February at 1:00 in the PAS Faculty Lounge. Come talk to her about gravitational wave paleontology, careers, and life in general.
PIE recently held a BBL on Floor Broekgaarden's paper "Ten Ways to Improve Support REsources for Workplace Incivility in Astronomy". She is currently at University of Arizona so we will have this social event with her before she leaves.
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Floor Broekgaarden is a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows hosted at Columbia University. She completed a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 2017, and obtained her PhD in astrophysics from Harvard in 2023, during which she held a NASA FINESST fellowship and was a Harvard Horizons Scholar. Floor is also currently a Research Professor in the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University where she will start full-time as an Assistant Professor by July 2025. Her research focuses on “gravitational-wave paleontology”: using the collisions of black holes and neutron stars observed with gravitational waves to probe the formation, lives, and deaths of massive stars across cosmic time. Additionally, she focuses on implementing AI in gravitational-wave astronomy.