Beth Willman
Beth Willman, who received her B.A. in astrophysics at Columbia University and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Washington, has been a James Arthur Fellow at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Beth's research focus is Near Field Cosmology. She specializes in searching for and studying the least luminous galaxies in the known Universe. The overarching theme of her research is to use comparisons between theory and observations of the local universe to learn about dark matter and galaxy formation. In particular, Dr. Willman investigates whether observations of the Milky Way and the ultra-faint galaxies orbiting it are consistent with the Cold Dark Matter model of the Universe.