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]
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
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
Villar has received many awards, prizes, and honors over the span of her career. Her awards include: