Baylor University

The Thomistic Institute at Baylor University presents a lecture by Prof. Karin Öberg of Harvard University titled “Science and the Theology of Extraterrestrials.”

Tuesday, September 13

6:30 PM

Armstrong Browning Library

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Due to room restrictions, attendance at this event will be limited to 90 attendees.

About the Speaker:

Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis focused on laboratory astrochemistry, from Leiden University in 2009. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. In 2013 she joined the Harvard astronomy faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted and named the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor in Astronomy in 2016, and promoted to full professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Öberg’s research in astrochemistry has been recognized with a Sloan fellowship, a Packard fellowship, the Newton Lacy Pierce Award from the American Astronomical Society, and a Simons fellowship. Her recent TED talk explaining some of her research can be found here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/karin_oberg_the_galactic_recipe_for_a_living_planet