Rebekah Dawson

In 2009, Rebekah Dawson received a B.A. in astrophysics at Wellesley College. She then went to Harvard University where she got a A.M. in Astronomy in (2011) and a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics supervised by Ruth Murray-Clay in 2013. She went on to her postdoctoral research at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science from 2013 to 2015.

In January 2016, she starts working as an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University.

In 2017, she is the laureate of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy "for her work modeling the dynamical interactions of exoplanets in multiplanet systems".