[3][4] Blundell was educated at the University of Cambridge[5] where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree [when?]

[2] Blundell is founder of the Global Jet Watch (GJW) project,[1] which records spectroscopic measurements of microquasars such as SS 433.

[14][15] Blundell is the author or co-author of several books, including Black Holes : A Very Short Introduction,[16] Concepts in Thermal Physics[13] and Energy... beyond Oil.

Blundell was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to astronomy and the education of young people.

[17] She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Astrophysics in 2005, the Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal Society in 2010, the Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2012 and the George Darwin Lectureship from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in 2015.