Profile of Esra Bulbul: X-ray Cosmologist and AAS 248 Plenary Speaker Studying Galaxy Clusters
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Sowkhya Shanbhog
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
This article profiles Dr. Esra Bulbul, a plenary speaker at the 248th AAS meeting. Dr. Bulbul is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics who uses X-ray observations of galaxy clusters to study dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic structure growth. She is also the lead scientist for cluster science and cosmology within the eROSITA collaboration and a 2025 HEAD Mid-Career Prize winner.
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· 3 pulledEsra Bulbul has built her career studying some of the largest structures in the Universe.
A group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, she uses X-ray observations of galaxy clusters to probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and the growth of cosmic structure.
She is the lead scientist for cluster science and cosmology within the eROSITA collaboration.
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