Rachel Wolf

Rachel Wolf is a researcher in the AAALab. She received her Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied Type Ia supernova cosmology. Rachel is passionate about STEM education and engagement both in and out of the classroom. She has worked at The Griffith Observatory, interned with Discovery Communications, and served as a volunteer outreach scientist with The Franklin Institute. She was one of the co-founders of the education and outreach committee for The Dark Energy Survey, where she managed, facilitated, and designed programming for an international collaboration of 400+ scientists. Rachel also has extensive teaching experience. She has taught undergraduate physics laboratories, been trained in and designed curricula for active-learning undergraduate physics courses, and engaged as a math instructor and tutor.