MIT Professor and Astrophysicist Sara Seager Appointed Officer to the Order of Canada

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Raised in Ontario, Canada, Sara Seager holds double U.S. and Canadian citizenship, in addition to scholastic consultations in MIT’s departments of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Physics; and Aeronautics and Astronautics. Credit: Photo thanks to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Pioneer in exoplanet research study assisted change the growing field into among the fastest-growing and most amazing in area science.

MIT’s Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences Sara Seager has actually been called an officer of the Order of Canada, among the nation’s greatest civilian honors. Announced by the guv general of Canada last month, the election acknowledges Seager “for her multidisciplinary research that has contributed to transforming the study of extrasolar planets into a full-fledged planetary science.”

Raised in Ontario, Canada, Seager holds double U.S. and Canadian citizenship, in addition to scholastic consultations in MIT’s departments of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Physics; and Aeronautics and Astronautics. She signs up with 114 brand-new appointees to the Order of Canada, that include 8 buddies, 21 officers, one honorary member, and 84 members.

As a planetary researcher and astrophysicist, Seager is at the leading edge of exoplanet research study. When Seager started her graduate research studies at Harvard University in the mid-1990s, extrasolar planetary research study was an emerging field, mainly based upon theory. However, her innovative deal with planetary environments, planetary interiors, and exoplanet transits caused various firsts for the obscure field and assisted to release it into presence. Her present research study utilizes theoretical designs to analyze, in information, exoplanet environments, their internal structure and structure, possible habitable zones, and gaseous signatures suggesting life. 

Her deal with exoplanets, and inspiration to discover the very first Earth-like world, has actually led her to take leading functions in various area science objectives, consisting of the MIT-led NASA objective Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which introduced in April 2018, and the Starshade Rendezvous Mission, a space-based objective principle under innovation advancement for direct imaging discovery and characterization of Earth analogs.

Seager’s work has actually made her substantial praise, consisting of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and election to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.

She signs up with more than 7,000 individuals, from throughout all sectors of Canadian society, who have actually gotten consultations to the Order of Canada, acknowledging “outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.” The inbound class of honorees will be welcomed to accept the order’s renowned snowflake insignia at an event to be kept in the future.