Rosemary F.G. Wyse

ROSEMARY F. G. WYSE graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London, with a BSc (1st class honors) in Physics with Astrophysics.  She then moved to Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), where she obtained a distinction in Part III of the Applied Mathematics Tripos, followed by her PhD at the Institute of Astronomy.  Wyse moved to the U.S. to undertake postdoctoral research, primarily at the University of California, Berkeley.  She joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1988.  Her research focus is in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, with emphases on resolved stellar populations and the nature of dark matter.  She received the 2016 Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the Division of Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society.