Patricia burchat biography

Prof. Burchat grew up in a very large family in a very small town in Canada. She is passionate about teaching and instilling enthusiasm for science in her students.

At Stanford, she has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She is past-Chair of the National Organizing Committee for the APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics.

Professor Burchat's research interests focus on fundamental questions in physics: What is the Universe made of?

Patricia burchat biography

What are the laws of physics that govern the constituents of the Universe? She is interested in studying the Universe at both the smallest and the largest scales. She has used accelerators to probe the elementary particles and the fundamental interactions; her current focus is on using astrono