NSN Webinar Series - Placing Worlds and Suns in Context with Dr. Eric Mamajek
Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Thursday May 15, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (9:00 PM Eastern) for "Placing Worlds and Suns in Context" with Dr. Eric Mamajek
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About Dr. Eric E. Mamajek
Dr. Eric E. Mamajek is a principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and since 2016 he has served as the Deputy Program Chief Scientist for the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, managed by JPL for the Astrophysics Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Eric grew up on an Appaloosa horse farm in Pennsylvania and earned his B.S. in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, an M.Sc. in physics from the University of New South Wales/ADFA, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona. He was previously a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Associate Astronomer for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and Professor of Physics & Astronomy at University of Rochester, where he worked with students on observational astronomy research related to the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems and their host stars. Eric is currently co-chair of the Habitable Worlds Observatory Science Working Group on Target Stars & Systems. Eric is also active in the International Astronomical Union, having founded the IAU Working Group on Star Names in 2016, and co-chairing the 2019 and 2022 IAU NameExoWorlds exoplanet public naming campaigns.
