PIs

Sera Markoff 🔗

Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, University of Amsterdam 🔗 University of Cambridge 🔗

Research areas:

Relativistic Jets and Black Hole Accretion (Event Horizon Telescope)

Techniques:

Multi-wavelength VLBI imaging of black hole accretion flows (Event Horizon Telescope)

Tags:

Event Horizon Telescope

Email:

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Department(s)/lab(s): Institute of Astronomy / Kavli Institute for Cosmology | Markoff Group @ Cambridge

Summary:

Markoff studies the extreme physics of accretion and jet formation around black holes of all scales, combining multi-wavelength observations with computational simulations; she is a founding member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration that produced the first black hole images, and co-leads a new EHT station in Namibia.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m. Metadata: Appointed Plumian Professor at Cambridge Dec 2025; retains a professorship at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).