page_title: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
section_title: Research and career
hierarchical_section_title: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil / Research and career
caption_attribution_description: English: PGC 1000714 (or 2MASX J1123164-0840067) - PanSTARRS1
context_page_description: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil is a Turkish astronomer and astrophysicist at the University of Arizona. She is a 2018 TED Fellow and a 2020 TED Senior Fellow.
context_section_description: In 2017 she was appointed a postdoctoral research associate at University of Arizona. She works at the Steward Observatory looking at the structure and dynamics of astrophysical objects, including dwarf galaxies, galactic rings and supermassive black holes. She uses telescopes in Chile and Hawaii. Here she co-chairs the Women in Astronomy group. She is an American Astronomical Society ambassador.
  During her doctoral studies, Mutlu-Pakdil discovered the galaxy PGC 1000714, which has been nicknamed "Burçin's galaxy". PGC 1000714 is an extremely rare double ringed elliptical galaxy, and her discovery generated extensive media coverage.
  She worked with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to create a series of short scientific films for the general public. In January 2018 Mutlu-Pakdil was announced as a TED Fellow. She gave a lecture  at TED Vancouver in April, 2018. She is a campaigner for the increased representation of Muslim women in science.
caption: Burçins Galaxy (right)
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