Is Earth our only home? Recent discoveries show that Earth is one of billions of terrestrial, temperate planets and that these are more commonplace in our galaxy than we may have believed. So, could we move to and survive on any of them?
Dr Raphaëlle D. Haywood is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. She is an expert in detecting and characterising planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets. In 2019, she advised NASA and the US National Science Foundation on designing a roadmap to discover Earth-like planets over the next decade. She is joining us to share her observations of exoplanets and will provide essential context to how discoveries impact us and the challenges we face on Earth.
This event is part of an event series on exoplanets and outer space. The first event will be Life Beyond Earth in September.
Speaker
Raphaelle Haywood
Senior Lecturer
University of Exeter
Raphaelle is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute (GSI) at the University of Exeter. She currently hold an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship for her astrophysics research on planets around other stars. Before joining Exeter, she was a NASA Sagan Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a Masters in Physics from Imperial College London, a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of St Andrews, and a Certificate in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School. She is an elected member of Senate for the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy.