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Alison L. Coil is a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego. the Ingrid and Joseph W. Hibben Chair at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego. Professor coil studies and has research interests in large-scale structure, redshift surveys, observational cosmology, galaxy and AGN clustering, galaxy and AGN information and evolution, galactic winds, and feedback. She is heavily involved in scientific outreach.

Biography
Coil received her B.A. in astrophysics from Princeton University in 1997, she received her M.S. in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, and her Ph.D. in astrophysics from the same institution in 2004. Prior to joining the faculty UC San Diego as the Ingrid and Joseph W. Hibben Chair, she was a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona. Dr. Coil has authored or co-authored over 162 papers on a variety of astrophysics topics.