Beth Willman

Beth Willman is an American astronomer who is the chief executive officer of the LSST Discovery Alliance, 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.

Education Beth Willman received her B.A. in astrophysics at Columbia University. Her doctoral advisor was Julianne Dalcanton and her thesis was on Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies.

Research Willman mainly focuses her research on cosmology. Her specialty is investigating the least luminous galaxies in our known Universe. The galaxy Willman 1, which she discovered during her postdoc, is named after her.