V. Ashley Villar
Victoria Ashley Villar is an astrophysicist who studies the death of stars and their by-products. She is an assistant professor at Harvard University.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Villar attended high school at Vero Beach High School in Florida.[2] She received her Bachelor of Science in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a minor in mathematics in 2014.[1] As an undergraduate, she wrote her senior thesis on asteroseismology with the assistance of professors John Johnson and Josh Winn.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University in 2020.[1] Villar was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and is now back at Harvard as an assistant professor. She was listed in the Science Category of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ashley Villar". astronomy.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ a b "V. Ashley Villar". ashleyvillar.com. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Victoria Ashley Villar". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
Further reading
[edit]- "Aramont Fellows bring cutting-edge scientific innovation to the forefront". Harvard Gazette. 2024-02-06. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- "Machines Learning Astronomy: The new era of artificial intelligence & Big Data is changing how we do astronomy. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- AAS Journal Author Series: Ashley Villar on 2021ApJS..255…24V, retrieved 2024-02-25
- "Our First Dance". medium. Mar 9, 2019. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
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