UD’s ‘Fighting Astrophysicist’ Named a TED Fellow

Astrophysicist Federica Bianco, who joined the University of Delaware faculty through the Data Science Institute’s recent cluster hire, has been named a 2019 TED Fellow - one of only 20 fellows named from around the world.

Federica Bianco, DSI Resident Faculty member who joined UD’s faculty last year in the cluster hire for DSI, moonlights as a professional boxer – bantamweight division. Now her outside-the-box approach to life and learning and interdisciplinary adventure has caught the imagination of the TED Fellows program, which she has been selected to join – one of only 20 fellows worldwide in the 2019 class. She is the first UD faculty member to be named a TED Fellow.