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Professor (Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Seager Group (Exoplanets and Habitability) @ MIT
Summary:

NON-PREFERRED (astronomy pivot, kept for review). Seager's group works on exoplanet atmosphere and interior characterization and the search for atmospheric biosignature gases, including leadership of space-mission concepts (Starshade, ASTERIA, TESS deputy science direction) that require high-contrast, high-resolution spectroscopic instrumentation; per public reporting she is departing MIT for the University of Toronto/CITA effective September 1, 2026, so any postdoc search should confirm her host institution directly.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Metadata: MIT profile reviewed Jul 2026; Seager reported to be relocating to University of Toronto (CITA) Sept 2026.