Dr. Becka Phillipson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Villanova University. Previously, she was an NSF MPS-Ascend postdoctoral fellow (2021-2024) and held an appointment at the University of Washington (2020-2022). She completed her PhD in Physics at Drexel University, where her graduate work was funded under a NASA Harrett G. Jenkins graduate research fellowship.

Dr. Phillipson is an astrophysicist who leverages statistics, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning to study the explosive and highly variable characteristics of exotic astrophysical objects, such as black holes and neutron stars.

A list of publications can be found on the ADS website here.