Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) wins Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics

Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) was awarded the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics by the APS. This award recognizes doctoral thesis in research in astrophysics, and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. The annual award consists of $1,500 for the recipient, a certificate, registration waiver, and all finalists will receive a travel reimbursement up to $750 in order to present their work in an invited session at the APS April Meeting.

Floor defended her thesis "Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History” on April 24, 2023. Her advisor was Edo Berger.