Sarah Burke-Spolaor is an associate professor at West Virginia University. She specializes in radio-astronomical studies of supermassive black hole binaries, pulsar timing arrays, and fast radio bursts. Burke-Spolaor carried out her doctoral research at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, followed by postdoctoral studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California; Caltech; and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, as a Jansky fellow. She has been named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, an Alfred P. Sloan fellow, and a Kavli fellow. She currently resides in Morgantown, West Virginia, with her spouse, children, chickens, and hamsters.
