Debra Fischer
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| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Currently Professor of Astronomy at Yale University as profesor of astronomy, San Francisco State University |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Known for | Astronomy |
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Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system.[1][2]
Research and career
Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf stars and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. She is a principal investigator with the N2K Consortium searching for exoplanets. She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.[2][3] She was the primary investigator for Chiron, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.[4] In 2011, she started the Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths with the Planetary Society, an instrument that will help planet hunters find Earth-like extrasolar planets.
Education
Fischer received her degree from the University of Iowa in 1975, a masters of science from San Francisco State University in 1992, and her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998. [5][6]
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