Anna Watts
British physicist
Anna Louise Watts is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam. She studies neutron stars and their thermonuclear explosions.
Education
Watts was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School. She studied physics at Merton College, Oxford, and graduated with a first class degree from the University of Oxford in 1995. She entered the science stream at the Ministry of Defence on a graduate scheme, where she worked for five years. Watts completed her PhD in physics supervised by Nils Andersson (physicist) in the general relativity group researching neutron stars.
Career and research
After her PhD Watts moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center. She then received a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. In 2008 Watts joined the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy.
Watts looks to understand the physics behind the violent dynamic events that occur on neutron stars.
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