Phone:	781-292-2560
Fax:	781-292-2508
Email:	rebecca.christianson@olin.edu

Originally from Minnesota , Dr. Christianson joined the Olin College faculty after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Her research includes confocal microscopy studies of colloidal suspensions and thermal transport measurements of nanofluids.

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. When not doing physics, playing her oboe or singing, she prefers to be outside hiking, canoeing, biking or playing with her kids.