Lisa Kaltenegger

Lisa Kaltenegger (born 4 March 1977) is an Austrian astronomer specialising in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On 1 July 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths and Life" group, and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA. She was appointed Lecturer in 2008 at Harvard University and 2011 at University of Heidelberg.