Biography:Marta Burgay

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Short description: Italian radio astronomer

Marta Burgay (born 30 November 1976, Turin) is an Italian radio astronomer. Her initial claim to fame was being the discoverer[1][2][3] of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar (two pulsars orbiting each other), through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia.[4]

Education

  • In 1995, she graduated from Liceo Classico XVI Febbraio: Aosta, specialising in classical studies.[5]
  • In 2000, she graduated from University of Bologna with a Laurea degree in Astronomy.
  • In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Bologna.

Awards and honours

  • Her thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 Pietro Tacchini Prize, awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society (Italian: Società Astronomica Italiana) for the best Ph.D. thesis.[6]
  • In 2005, she was part of the international group PulSE (Pulsar Science in Europe) awarded the Descartes Prize for "Excellence in collaborative scientific research"
  • In 2006, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.[7]
  • In 2006, she was awarded the SIGRAV prize for contribution to General Relativity and Gravitational Astrophysics.[8]
  • In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.[9]
  • Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta, discovered at Vallemare di Borbona in 2005, was named in her honour[4] .The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 (M.P.C. 106503).[10]
  • In 2011, she was awarded the Marisa Bellisario prize, entitled "Women, Innovation, and Human Capital".[11]

References

  1. ↑ Pulsar find boosts hope for gravity-wave hunters, CSIRO, 3 December 2003, accessed 2009-05-11
  2. ↑ New Binary Neutron Star Will Test Einstein , Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 2003.12.12, accessed 2009-05-11
  3. ↑ Einstein Passes New Tests, Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 3 March 2005, accessed 2009-05-11
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "198634 Burgaymarta (2005 AN54)". Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=198634. Retrieved 24 August 2019. 
  5. ↑ "ORCID". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-4344. 
  6. ↑ Burgay, Marta, "Marta Burgay PhD Thesis", The Cagliari Pulsar Group (Cagliari Astronomical Observatory), http://pulsar.oa-cagliari.inaf.it/pulsar/Tesi/BurgayPhd/, retrieved 2012-01-03 
  7. ↑ Fridman, Alexia M. (2005), "The IUPAP young scientists prize in astrophysics", Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (Commission 19 (Astrophysics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) 24 (3): 149, doi:10.1080/10556790500481042, Bibcode: 2005A&AT...24..149F, http://www.iupap.org/commissions/c19/youngscie.html, retrieved 2012-01-03 
  8. ↑ "The SIGRAV Prizes . SIGRAV" (in en). SIGRAV. http://www.sigrav.org/i-premi-sigravthe-sigrav-prizes.html. 
  9. ↑ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of India. http://www.astron-soc.in/awards.php#vainu_bappu. Retrieved June 10, 2015. 
  10. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 24 August 2019. 
  11. ↑ Malaspina, Marco. "Premio “Marisa Bellisario” a Marta Burgay" (in it-IT). https://www.media.inaf.it/2011/06/10/premio-marisa-bellisario-marta-burgay/. 



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