Rebecca Christianson, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics

Dr. Christianson will be joining the Olin College faculty in January 2005 after completing her post-doctoral research at Harvard University. Her research includes light scattering and microscopy studies of self-assembly kinetics in two-component colloidal systems, anisotropic colloids and surfactant systems. She previously worked on x-ray and neutron scattering studies of high temperature superconductors and other low-dimensional magnetic materials.

Dr. Christianson is a dedicated teacher who recently received a teaching award from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. Among published journals and reviews, she and her colleagues have recently submitted "Crystallization Kinetics of Binary Colloidal Alloys," which contains results from the Physics of Colloids in Space experiment which flew on the International Space Station in 2001.

Dr. Christianson received her Ph.D. from MIT and her B.S. in physics and B.A. in music both from Stanford University. In addition to physics and music, her interests include hiking, canoeing, cooking, gardening and playing board games.