William J. Pearson
Assistant Professor, Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Dr. William J. Pearson is an astrophysicist originally from the UK. He gained his Master's degree from Imperial College, London, UK, in physics, with his dissertation looking at galaxies that are extremely bright in infrared wavelengths and supervised by Dr. David Clements. After finishing his degree in, Dr. Pearson moved to the Netherlands for his PhD. William undertook his PhD in the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and The University of Groningen under Prof. Floris van der Tak and Dr. Lingyu Wang. Dr Pearson's PhD focused on what causes galaxies to form stars and introduced him to merging galaxies and artificial intelligence. After receiving his PhD in late 2019, William moved to Poland in early 2020 to work in the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), continuing his work on using artificial intelligence to study and understand merging galaxies. While at NCBJ, Dr. Pearson received an OPUS grant from the Polish National Science Centre, to aid his work using artificial intelligence, as well as becoming a Foundation for Polish Science START laureate and a recipient of a young scientist stipend from the Polish Ministry of Science and Education in 2022.