Mercedes López-Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will give a talk titled “Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
López-Morales received her Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After completing her Ph.D. she went on to become a postdoctoral fellow and a Hubble fellow at DTM. Her research focuses on the detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres as principal investigator of the ACCESS project and on the detection of Earth-like planets around other stars as co-investigator of HARPS-North.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.