Monica Blank is an American electrical engineer whose research focuses on gyrotrons and their use in generating millimeter-wave radiation for applications including radar and nuclear magnetic resonance.
She works for Communications & Power Industries (formerly part of Varian, Inc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Blank majored in electrical engineering at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1988.
She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study in electrical engineering, earned a master's degree in 1991, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994.
[3] She was the recipient of the IEEE 2020 Plasma Science and Applications Award, given at the 2020 International Conference on Plasma Sciences, "for outstanding technical contributions to the development of high-power, high-frequency gyrotron amplifier and oscillator sources for spectroscopy, radar, fusion, and industrial applications".