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Victoria Ashley Villar is an astrophysicist. She studies the death of stars and their by-products. Villar 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, and continued her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University in 2020.[1]
During Villar's undergraduate year, she wrote her senior thesis on asteroseismology with the assistance of professors John Johnson and Josh Winn.[2] Villar was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University after earning her PhD from Harvard University.
Career edit
- Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University (2023 - Present)
- Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State (2021-2023) where she was the inaugural Mercedes Richards Career Development Professor.[2]
- Simons Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute (2020-2021)
- U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)
Awards and honors edit
Villar has received many awards, prizes, and honors over the span of her career. Her awards include:
- APS Minority Scholarship (2010-2014)
- MIT Joel Matthew Orloff Award (2014)[3]
- MIT Albert G. Hill Prize (2014)[4]
- Harvard James Mills Peirce Fellowship (2014)[5]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2014-2017)
- Harvard Merit/ Graduate Society Research Fellowship (2018)
- MIT/Stanford Rising Star Physics (2019)
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2019-2020)[6]
- Cell 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists in America (2020)[7]
- Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science Category) (2022)[8]
References edit
- ^ a b "Ashley Villar". astronomy.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ a b c "V. Ashley Villar". ashleyvillar.com. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Student Awards and Honors » MIT Physics". MIT Physics. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Albert G. Hill Prize | MIT Awards Convocation". awards.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Peirce Fellowship". astronomy.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Fellow Detail". ra.nas.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Termini, Christina. "100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America". crosstalk.cell.com. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Victoria Ashley Villar". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
Further reading edit
- gazetteterrymurphy (2024-02-06). "Aramont Fellows bring cutting-edge scientific innovation to the forefront". Harvard Gazette. 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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