A Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching, Germany, Annette Ferguson is an observational astronomer who specializes in the area of galaxy evolution.

Her research focuses on conducting observations of stars and interstellar gas in nearby galaxies to gain insights to the formation and evolution of systems in our own Milky Way. Much of her recent work has focused on the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor. Her research exploits ground-based telescopes in the Canary Islands, Chile, and Hawaii as well as sophisticated instruments on board the Hubble Space Telescope.

Originally from Scotland, Ferguson earned a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and a doctorate in astrophysics from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, and the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen, the Netherlands.