Astrophysics Postdoc, NSF MPS Ascend Fellow
UC Riverside
San Bernardino, California, United States
Dr. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at CSU San Bernardino, with expertise in Near-Field Cosmology and galaxy evolution particularly in ultrafaint dwarf galaxies. Alongside astrophysics, Katy is also passionate about mentorship — she is Director of Mentorship for the Cal–Bridge Program, a CSU-UC STEM scholarship program, where her aim is to normalize a holistic approach to academic success and strengthen marginalized communities. She continues this work through her service on the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s Board of Directors. Katy, a SoCal native, first attended Mt. San Antonio College, then earned her Physics B.S from CSU Long Beach, her Physics Ph.D. from UC Irvine and completed a postdoc at UC Riverside, where she was an NSF MPS Ascend Fellow. Aside from work, Katy loves slightly contradictory things like hiking and binging anime, HIIT and gardening, and Disneyland and rock-climbing (though her 2 wee children make a lot of that hard 😂).
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