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Heather A. Knutson
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Heather A. Knutson is an astrophysicist and professor of planetary science at California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.[1] Her research is focused on the study of exoplanets, their composition and formation.
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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 |
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Fields | Astrophysics Exoplanets |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Portraits of distant worlds: Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | David Charbonneau |
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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".[2]