Heather A. Knutson
Heather A. Knutson is an astrophysicist and professor of planetary science at California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. Her research is focused on the study of exoplanets, their composition and formation.
Heather Knutson | |
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Knutson in 2018, photo from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. | |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Harvard University |
| Awards | NSF GRFP Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics Exoplanets |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Portraits of distant worlds: Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Charbonneau |
In 2016, she was referred to in Popular Science as "the first exoplanet meteorologist, determining the local temperature, weather, and even composition of the atmosphere".
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