Short Bio
David Charbonneau joined the faculty in the Department of Astronomy
at Harvard University in August 2004. His research focuses on the
development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of
planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars. Dr. Charbonneau is a founding
member of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, which uses a network of
small, automated telescopes to survey tens of thousands of stars for
periodic eclipses that indicate the passage of orbiting planets. In 2005,
he led the team that made the first direct detection of light emitted by a
planet outside the Solar system. Dr. Charbonneau earned his PhD in
astronomy from Harvard University, and received his undergraduate degree
in math and physics from the University of Toronto. In 2004, the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific awarded him the Robert J. Trumpler
Award for his graduate thesis entitled "Shadows and Reflections of
Extrasolar Planets". He was recently named an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellow, and awarded a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and
Engineering.
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