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Anna Williams

Assistant Professor

Olin-Rice Science Center, 128
651-696-6956

 

Anna Williams is an assistant professor who joined the Macalester Physics and Astronomy department in Fall 2018.  She recently received her PhD in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and spent the summer continuing to do research at Wisconsin as a post-doc.  Her primary research focuses on observational detections of magnetic fields in distant galaxies using radio telescopes.  These observations are driven by two main questions: 1. “What is the origin of galactic-scale magnetic fields in galaxies?” and 2. “How do these magnetic fields affect the star formation and evolution of galaxies, and vice-versa?”  She is excited to be at Macalester, and looks forward to getting students involved in her research.