Debra Fischer

Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And.

Debra A. Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University. Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf 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.^[1]

Debra Fischer received her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley while managing the Lick Observatory planet search program.^[2][3]

Debra Fischer has three children.

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 for Earth-like extrasolar planets.

References

1. ^ "N2K Consortium". http://exoplanets.sfsu.edu/Research/N2K.html. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
2. ^ "Radcliffe Institute Guest Lecturer Bio". http://www.radcliffe.edu/research/2006fischer.aspx. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
3. ^ "Interview with D. Fisher, Planet-Hunter". 2008-01-01. http://www.womanastronomer.com/dfischer.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 

See also

• List of stars with confirmed planets

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