Current responsibilities
Grant Wilson is currently a Research Scientist at the University of Chicago. Next Spring Grant will be starting an assistant professorship at the University of Massachusetts where he will work on the Large Millimeter telescope.

Influences, Education/Career Journey
Growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, he did not discover his passion for physics and academics until late in high school when he was deeply inspired by a visiting physics professor from the United States Naval Academy. Knowing that graduate school in physics was his goal, he avoided a heavy physics course load at Tufts University in order to take on an eclectic undergraduate curriculum including classes in engineering, philosophy, sociology, and springboard diving.

After college Grant went straight to graduate school in physics at Brown University. There he studied under observational cosmologist Peter Timbie who introduced him to the art of building high-sensitivity microwave radiometers. After receiving his Ph.D. at Brown, Grant worked at the NASA/GSFC as a National Research Council Postdoctoral fellow before taking his current position at the University of Chicago.

Personal information
While in Antarctica he expects to sorely miss both his extremely patient fiancee and his somewhat less-patient (yet beloved) dog Veronica.