Freya Blekman is a professor of experimental particle physics and lead scientist at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). She also holds a professorship at the University of Hamburg and has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Department Of Physics.

Her research at DESY and elsewhere aims to answer fundamental questions about the universe, such as its evolution, the nature of space and time, the essence of mass, and the mystery of missing universal matter.