Christopher Williams (astronaut)
Christopher Williams | |
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Williams in February 2024 | |
| Born | Christopher Leigh Williams October 23, 1983 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Selection | NASA Group 23 (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Thesis | Initial Exploration of 21-cm Cosmology with Imaging and Power Spectra from the Murchison Widefield Array (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacqueline Hewitt |
Christopher Leigh Williams is an American medical physicist and NASA astronaut. Selected in 2021 as part of NASA Astronaut Group 23, he is slated to launch to the International Space Station in 2025 as a flight engineer on Expedition 74. Before joining NASA, Williams worked at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, where he led efforts in MRI-guided radiation therapy for cancer treatment. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is board-certified in medical physics.