Beverley J. McKeon is a physicist and aerospace engineer specializing in fluid dynamics, and in particular in turbulent flows near walls.
[1][2] She was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.
McKeon is originally from the Surrey, England, the daughter of a flight engineer.
She went to Princeton University for graduate study in mechanical and aerospace engineering, earning a second master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003,[4] under the supervision of Alexander Smits.
[4] In 2016, McKeon was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for experimental and theoretical contributions to advancing the understanding of wall turbulence and for elegant interdisciplinary approaches to modeling and flow manipulation".