Beth Willman

Beth Willman is an American astronomer and is an assistant professor at Haverford College. Working with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, she and her team have discovered two Milky Way satellites so far, SDSSJ1049+5103 (known commonly as "Willman 1") and UMa I dSph.

Willman earned her PhD at the University of Washington in 2003. She earned her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics at Columbia University. Following her PhD, she was a James Arthur Postdoc at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics (CCPP) at New York University. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.