Dr. Corrales received her PhD from Columbia University where she was a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow working with Dr. Frits Paerels on dust scattering halos in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. After that she took a postdoctoral position with the Chandra HETG group at MIT, working on software tools and developing techniques for […]
Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and Associate Professor in Astronomy. Her research focuses on exploring new worlds orbiting other stars, especially rocky planets and super-Earths and their atmospheres in the habitable zone. She is a world-leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint, which can […]
I am currently a postdoc-fellow in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz. I am currently working on understanding exoplanet clouds and hazes through laboratory experiments with the 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship. I am also interested in organic materials in the Solar System, especially organics on my […]
Fischer began hunting for exoplanets in 1997 by measuring Doppler shifts in the spectra of stars. She has discovered hundreds of extrasolar planets with this technique, including the first known multiple planet system in 1999. Her team is developing next generation spectrometers, statistical methods and machine learning analysis techniques to transition from current state of […]
Quinn Konopacky is an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego. Professor Konopacky uses high resolution techniques on large ground based telescopes to study star and planet formation. She got her Ph.D. in astronomy at UCLA in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Livermore […]
I use a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes to characterize the properties of planets orbiting nearby stars. Specifically, I am interested in using present-day properties of planetary systems to explore how planetary systems form and evolve, and to explore the diversity of planet types around other stars. For more information about my research, you […]
Clara Sousa-Silva is a quantum astrochemist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She investigates how molecules interact with light so that they can be detected on faraway worlds. Clara spends most of her time studying molecules that life can produce so that, one day, she can detect an alien biosphere. Her favorite molecular biosignature is phosphine: a terrifying […]
I am currently an Assistant Professor at UT Austin studying exoplanet atmospheres of all shapes and sizes. I simulate the atmospheres of planets using theoretical models, in order to measure the properties of atmospheres from afar, including terrestrial planets, super Earths, gas giants, brown dwarfs, and everything in between. website: www.carolinemorley.com Twitter: @AstroCaroline
I work to characterize the atmospheres of planets outside of our Solar System (“exoplanets”), through three-dimensional modeling of their atmospheric circulation patterns (winds and temperature structures). I am particularly interested in predicting observable signatures of various physical processes and in identifying new observational techniques that can be used to better constrain the atmospheric properties of […]
Sara Seager is the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun. Her research has introduced many foundational ideas to the field of theory, computation, and data analysis for […]
