Christopher L. Williams
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CAREER RECORD
| Time in Space | 108:07:12:00 |
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
| Birthplace | New York City, Williams considers Potomac |
| Hometown | Potomac, Maryland |
| Education | Graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2001. Earned a bachelorโs degree in physics from Stanford University in 2005 and a doctorate in physics from MIT in 2012. Completed residency training at the Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program in 2015. At the time of his selection, Williams was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as a medical physicist in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Brigham and Womenโs Hospital, Boston, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was the lead physicist for the Instituteโs MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy program. His research focused on developing new image guidance techniques for cancer treatments. Williamsโ doctoral research at MIT was in astrophysics, focusing on developing radio telescope instrumentation and data processing techniques for cosmology.ย He was part of the team that built the Murchison Widefield Array, a low-frequency radio telescope array in Western Australia designed to study the epoch of reionization of the early universe. During high school and college, Williams worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., studying supernovae using the Very Large Array radio telescope. He has also served as a volunteer emergency medical technician and firefighter. Williams was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in December 2021 and reported for duty in January 2022 to complete two years of initial astronaut training. During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams will serve as a flight engineer and Expedition 74 crew member. Eagle Scout, MIT Bruno Rossi Fellowship (2006), Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2006), American Astronomical Society Beth Brown Memorial Award (2009); Brigham Research Institute Innovator Award (2017). Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Astronaut Christopher Williams (PDF 578 KB) |
| Awards | Eagle Scout, MIT Bruno Rossi Fellowship (2006), Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2006), American Astronomical Society Beth Brown Memorial Award (2009); Brigham Research Institute Innovator Award (2017). Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Astronaut Christopher Williams (PDF 578 KB) |
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