Sara Seager
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| Born |
21 July 1971 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Canada-United States |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Fields | Astronomy, Planetary science |
| Institutions |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007–) Carnegie Institution of Washington (2002–2006) Institute for Advanced Study (1999–2002) |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Ph.D. University of Toronto B.Sc |
| Thesis | Extrasolar giant planets under strong stellar irradiation (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dimitar Sasselov |
| Known for | Search for extrasolar planets |
| Notable awards |
MacArthur Fellowship (2013) Helen B. Warner Prize (2007) Harvard Bok Prize in Astronomy (2004) NSERC Science and Technology Fellowship (1990–1994) |
| Spouse | Charles Darrow |
| Children | Two |
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Website seagerexoplanets |
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 Sara Seager, “The search for planets beyond our solar system”, TED2015 |
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“Space Experts Discuss the Search for Life in the Universe at NASA”, NASA 2014 |
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“Sara Seager ”, Origins 2011 |
Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics. She has been recognized for this research by Popular Science,Discover Magazine,Nature, and TIME Magazine. Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on exoplanet atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits.
Seager was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, Dr David Seager was a pioneer in hair transplantation and the founder of the Seager Hair Transplant Center in Toronto.
She earned the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 1994 assisted by a NSERC University Undergraduate Student Research Award and a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1999. Her doctoral thesis developed theoretical models of atmospheres on extrasolar planets, and was supervised by Dimitar Sasselov. She held a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Institute for Advanced Study between 1999 and 2002 and a senior research staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington until 2006. She joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 2007 as an associate professor in both physics and planetary science, was granted tenure in July 2007, and was elevated to full professor in July 2010. She currently holds the "Class of 1941" chair.
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