| Beth Willman | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Astronomy |
| Thesis Title: | A Survey for Resolved Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Satellites |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/openview/9aa9d76010178f77e4e3d788d17d1c35/1 |
| Thesis Year: | 2003 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Julianne Dalcanton |
Beth Willman is an American astronomer who is the Chief Executive Officer of the LSST Discovery Alliance,[1] an astronomical organization notable for its support of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. She was previously the deputy director of the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) and an associate professor of astronomy at Haverford College.
Beth Willman received her B.A. in astrophysics at Columbia University. In 2003 she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington.[2] [3] Her doctoral advisor was Julianne Dalcanton and her thesis was on Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies. Beth Willman has also been a James Arthur Fellow at New York University's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and a Clay Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.[4]
Beth mainly focuses her research on cosmology. Her specialty is investigating the least luminous galaxies in our known Universe.[5] [6] The galaxy Willman 1, which she discovered during her postdoc, is named after her.[7]