Christine Moran
NASA JPL
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Christine
I’m the Deputy Manager for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, a NASA Headquarters Program that JPL manages for the NASA Astrophysics Division and the exoplanet science community. In this role I’m supporting discovering new planets outside of our solar system, characterizing them, and looking for life among the stars. I also serve on the Perseverance Mars Rover team as a payload downlink lead on the Engineering Cameras team.
I did my Ph.D. Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Zurich under Professor George Lake and Professor Romain Teyssier. I studied Physics and Computer Science and Engineering (double major) and Mathematics and Philosophy (double minor) at MIT and obtained a Master’s degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology from UZH.
Post Ph.D., I worked on the South Pole Telescope on-site at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 with the University of Chicago, served as a NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting scientist at Caltech.
Education
Postdoc
Caltech, 2015 - 2018
Ph.D.
Astrophysics, UZH, 2014
Master's
Astrophysics, UZH, 2009
Bachelor's
Physics, Computer Science and Engineering, MIT, 05/2007
