NASA Astronaut Christopher L. Williams
Christopher L. Williams was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021.
Quick Facts
Earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012.
Williams is a volunteer emergency medical technician and firefighter.
Prior to his selection, Williams was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, researching on developing image techniques for cancer treatments.
Biography
Christopher L. Williams
Learn more about Christopher L. Williams, including experience, hobbies, background, and more.
Chris Williams was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class. He graduated from Stanford University (Palo Alto, California), with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 2005 and earned a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 2012, where his research was in astrophysics. Williams is a board-certified medical physicist, completing his residency training at Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts), before joining the faculty as a clinical physicist and researcher.
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