# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/begona-vila
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:12.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/begona-vila"
name: "Begoña Vila"
slug: "begona-vila"
description: "María Begoña Vila Costas is a Spanish astrophysicist specializing in the study of spiral galaxies. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. and works as a systems engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She is the lead engineer for the Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) on the James Webb Space Telescope – the Hubble's successor – in addition to being in charge of the final cold test of the group of instruments before their integration with the telescope. She is now working on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope."
tagline: "Spanish astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bego%C3%B1a_Vila_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump