ABOUT
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
Lindsay Wilson is an early-career theoretical and computational physicist and interdisciplinary artist. She was born and raised in Harrisburg, PA, where she graduated from the Advanced Visual Arts program at the Capital Area School for the Arts. Trained in traditional and digital media, Lindsay worked as a freelance illustrator, fine artist, and professional tattoo artist in the Harrisburg area for over a decade.
In May of 2022, Lindsay graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with an undergraduate degree in physics. During her time as a student at Penn State, she worked as a student researcher in the fields of Loop Quantum Cosmology, perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, and musical pitch perception.
She currently works with Dr. Bojowald (Penn State) on projects in Loop Quantum Cosmology, where her research aims to explore new analytic and algebraic dynamics for spatial "atoms" in the neighborhood of the Big Bang singularity and to provide tools that aid in the visual understanding of such systems.
Lindsay's work with Dr. Nichols in the Pitch Exploration Lab (PEL) at Penn State resulted in the creation of numerous computer programs, most notably the creation of an interactive installation visualizer. The visualizer's construction utilized basic perceptronic structures and was able to automatically respond to movement within the installation gallery by producing both visual and sonic arrangements based on the characteristics of the initial movement. Her research in PEL directly reflects her interest in applying artistic attitudes toward technical concepts.
She continues to make art in her free time. The trajectory of her recent art projects attempts to address notions of self-congruency, flux, resonance, neurodivergency, perceptual phenomenology, as well as multiple modes of language and expression. Her art has been exhibited in Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts, and is represented in private collections internationally.
Lindsay is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in the physics department at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.