Britt Lundgren

Britt Lundgren currently holds the position of Philip G. Carson Distinguished Professor in the Sciences and Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina Asheville since August 2016, focusing on developing and teaching undergraduate courses while utilizing data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to examine the gas surrounding distant galaxies. Previously, Britt served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Big Data and Analytics at the National Science Foundation, where the role involved research and evaluation of STEM educational programs for low-income students. Past experience includes an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, postdoctoral research at Yale University, and earlier academic roles at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. Britt Lundgren earned a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Physics (Astrophysics) from the University of Chicago.