“My current research interests are centred on the interstellar medium and star formation, both in nearby galaxies and in our own Milky Way,” says Dr. Christine Wilson, physics and astronomy, and a recipient of the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award.

As an astrophysicist, she’s especially interested in the properties of giant molecular clouds, the nature of the interstellar medium in dwarf galaxies, mechanisms that regulate star formation rates, and properties of low-mass protostars in nearby molecular clouds.

Dr. Wilson is the Canadian project scientist for the Atacama Large Millimetre Array, a worldwide consortium that runs a radio antenna array in Chile. She is also one of six Canadian project scientists using the astronomical satellite Odin to study water and oxygen in the interstellar medium.

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