Christopher Williams

Williams is a board-certified medical physicist, completing his residency training at Harvard Medical School, Boston, before joining the faculty as a clinical physicist and researcher.

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 graduated from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 2005 and a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2012, where his research was in astrophysics.