Woods Lecture Series: Jessie Christiansen

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The Search for Earth 2.0: Why We Think It Exists, and How We’re Going to Find It

Dr. Jessie Christiansen is Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech/IPAC, where she searches for, characterizes, and catalogs planets orbiting other stars. She leads the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and has worked on the NASA Kepler, K2, and now TESS missions to characterize the demographics of exoplanets, and to find and study the nearest planetary systems to Earth—systems that will be perfect for further study with NASA’s next flagship mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory. She is also the Principal Investigator of a new NASA mission concept called SHERA—Searching for Habitable Exoplanets with Relative Astrometry.