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Selma de Mink
Born
Selma de Mink
NationalityDutch
Education
AwardsPastoor Smeitsprize (2019)
Merac Prize (2017)
Scientific career
Fields
  • stellar physics
  • Thesis Stellar evolution at low metallicity
    Doctoral advisorOnno R. Pols
    Websitewww.selmademink.com

    Selma de Mink is a Dutch astrophysicist[1] specializing in evolution of stars, stellar binary systems and compact objects, including black holes. She is a scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich, Germany.

    Early life and education[edit]

    Selma de Mink was born in the Netherlands.

    She graduated from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2010 with a Ph.D. in Astronomy, and in 2005 with an MSc in Astrophysics, BSc in Physics and BSc in Applied Math (all cum laude).[2]

    Career[edit]

    From 2019 to 2020 she was an associate professor at the Harvard University Astronomy Department, with appointments at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard. As of 2021 she is scientific director of the stellar astrophysics department at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany.[3]

    Research[edit]

    In a 2012 paper in Science,[4] De Mink and her collaborators determined that binary merges are ubiquitous among massive stars (such as Type O stars), with 70% of massive stars exchanging mass at some point with a companion, resulting in binaries in a third of these cases. For this transformative work causing scientists to reassess the importance of binary stars in stellar evolution, De Mink has been featured in a number of popular science outlets, such as the Christian Science Monitor.[5] De Mink also has widely recognized work on black hole mergers with Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) implications,[6] as she explained how massive stars can get close enough to each other to form black hole binaries if they exchange enough material to form a homogeneous envelope.

    Awards[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "Selma de Mink". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  • ^ "Selma de Mink". Black Hole Initiative. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  • ^ "Selma E. de Mink appointed as director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics". Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. January 1, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  • ^ Hugues, Sana; De Mink, Selma; de Koter, Alex; Langer, N.; Evans, CJ; Gieles, M; Gosset, Eric; Izzard, RG; Le Bouquin, J-B; Schneider, FRN (2012). "Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars". Science. 337 (6093): 444–446. arXiv:1207.6397. Bibcode:2012Sci...337..444S. doi:10.1126/science.1223344. PMID 22837522. S2CID 53596517.
  • ^ Denise Chow (July 26, 2012). "Brightest and hottest stars have close, turbulent relationships, study suggets [sic]". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  • ^ Natalie Wolchover (September 26, 2016). "Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  • ^ "Pastoor Schmeitsprijs voor de Sterrenkunde voor dr. Selma de Mink". University of Groningen. May 27, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  • ^ Merac Prize 2017
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