Laura K. Schaefer is an American planetary scientist whose research concerns the atmospheres and atmosphere formation of exoplanets, and the effect of asteroid impacts on the formation of the Earth's atmosphere.[1][2][3][4][5] She is an assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford University.

Education and career

Schaefer majored in earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 2002. She continued to work at Washington University until 2011, when she became a graduate student in astronomy at Harvard University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2016, under the supervision of Dimitar Sasselov; her dissertation was The Atmosphere-Interior Connection: Rocky Planets as Linked Chemical Systems.[6]

After postdoctoral research at Arizona State University, she joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of geological sciences in 2019.[6]

References

  1. ^ Rosen, Julia (June 1, 2015), "Exoplanets could have long-lived oceans", Earth, retrieved 2022-05-21
  2. ^ Lerner, Louise (March 15, 2021), "There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres", UChicago News, University of Chicago, retrieved 2022-05-21
  3. ^ Wood, Charlie (April 19, 2021), "Astronomers cooked up alien atmospheres in an oven", Popular Science, retrieved 2022-05-21
  4. ^ Fuge, Lauren (March 30, 2022), "Bombardments from outer space shaped the atmosphere", Cosmos, retrieved 2022-05-21
  5. ^ Garthwaite, Josie (March 6, 2020), "What exoplanets can tell us about Earth", Futurity, retrieved 2022-05-21
  6. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2022-05-21

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