Jacqueline van Gorkom

Jacqueline Henrie͏̈tte van Gorkom (born 30 March 1947) is a Dutch radio astronomer and Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. Van Gorkom is known for her contributions to the field of galaxy evolution, particularly through observations of neutral hydrogen gas.

Education and career Jacqueline van Gorkom was born in Voorburg. She worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico for 8 years as a research scientist before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1988. She has held visiting appointments at the Raman Research Institute, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and the Kapteyn Institute. She has served as chair and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Astronomy and is currently the Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy at Columbia.

Awards and honors

2019 - Hintze Lecture at University of Oxford 2016 - Karl G. Jansky Lectureship 2008 - Miller Professor at University of California, Berkeley 2005 - Da Vinci Professor at the Kapteyn Institute