Announcement

Professor Karin Öberg Named 2020 Simons Investigator Recipient

July 1, 2020

Karin Öberg, Professor of Astronomy , has been named a 2020 Simons Investigator recipient for her work on the role of chemistry during planet formation. She combines theory, astronomical observations and experiments to explore the chemical environments within which planets assemble, the links between chemistry and dynamics in planet-forming disks and how the compositions of mature planets depends on the disk environment where they formed. Her models of planet compositions have provided an interpretive framework for the exoplanet community. Öberg’s work on the volatile and...

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Congratulations to Jenny Bergner 2019 IAU Prize Winner!

June 8, 2020

The IAU PhD Prize recognises outstanding scientific achievements of astronomy PhD students around the world. Each of the IAU’s nine divisions awards a prize to the candidate it feels has carried out the most remarkable work in the previous year.

Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe: Jennifer Bergner, USA, "Tracing organic complexity during star and planet formation"

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Congratulations to Jane Huang for being named a 2020 Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow!

June 1, 2020
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) supports outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research which contributes to NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observation, experimentation, or instrumental development.  Jane's Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship will take place at the University of Michigan.
 

Congratulations Dr. Jenny Bergner!

April 26, 2019
Jenny Bergner has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis 'Tracing Chemical Complexity During Star and Planet Formation'. She will start a Hubble Sagan post doctoral fellowship at University of Chicago the fall of 2019.