A smorgasbord of cosmology, astrobiology, exoplanet s and the astronomical prerequisites for life
An astrophysicist, Charles H. Li neweaver is an associate professor at the Australian National University’s Planetary Science Institute (PSI). His research areas include cosmology (de termination of the age and composition of the universe), exoplanetology (th e statistical analysis of exoplanets), astrobiology (using our new knowledg e of cosmology to constrain life in the Universe). His research has been p ublished in numerous science journals and magazines.
Educated at Ludw ig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich where he was awarded highest honors in physics, Dr. Lineweaver earned a BA in history from the State University o f New York at Binghamton, an MA in English from Brown University, a BS in p hysics from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.
He was a member o f the COBE satellite team, led by George Smoot (2006 Physics Nobel Prize), that discovered the temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave backgr ound. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Observatoire Astronomique in Stra sbourg and, successively, a vice chancellors postdoctoral research fellow a nd Australian Research Council (ARC) fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where he taught one of the most popular general studies course s “Are We Alone?”
A member of the editorial board of Astrobiology Mag azine, he is the author of more than seventy papers published in scientific journals or in volumes of collected works.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A smorgasbord of cosmology, astrobiology, exoplanet s and the astronomical prerequisites for life
An astro physicist, Charles H. Lineweaver is an associate professor at the Australia n National University’s Planetary Science Institute (PSI). His research are as include cosmology (determination of the age and composition of the unive rse), exoplanetology (the statistical analysis of exoplanets), astrobiology (using our new knowledge of cosmology to constrain life in the Universe). His research has been published in numerous science journals and magazines .
Educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich where he was a warded highest honors in physics, Dr. Lineweaver earned a BA in history fro m the State University of New York at Binghamton, an MA in English from Bro wn University, a BS in physics from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.
He was a member of the COBE satellite team, led by George Smoot (200 6 Physics Nobel Prize), that discovered the temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Observato ire Astronomique in Strasbourg and, successively, a vice chancellors postdo ctoral research fellow and Australian Research Council (ARC) fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where he taught one of the most popula r general studies courses “Are We Alone?”
A member of the editorial b oard of Astrobiology Magazine, he is the author of more than seventy papers published in scientific journals or in volumes of collected works.
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