Olivia Harper Wilkins

Olivia is a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow working on cosmic ice analogue experiments to understand interstellar molecule formation at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Prior to NASA, she completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at Caltech, where she used radio telescopes to observe interstellar laboratories that constitute star-forming regions. She also holds a B.S. in chemistry and mathematics from Dickinson College (Pennsylvania, United States) and was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Cologne (Germany). Olivia also enjoys communicating science through art, and she authored and illustrated Astrochemistry for the ACS In Focus series.