Biography

Dr. Alycia Weinberger is a Staff Scientist and Associate Director of the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. Weinberger's research interests are mainly in planet formation, young stars, and exoplanets where she enjoys employing novel observational methods on large ground and space telescopes. She is currently Co-Chair of the National Academies’ Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, which supports scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics by providing advice on the implementation of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey Recommendations.

Weinberger received a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Carnegie Science, Weinberger was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Los Angeles associated with the Hubble Space Telescope’s first infrared instrument NICMOS and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.  She has also served on the US Extremely Large Telescope Program Advisory Committee, the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science Team, and the NASA Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer Key Science Team. Weinberger’s awards and honors include the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of Astronomical Society of India and the Annie Jump Cannon Award. She is also a fellow of the American Astronomical Society.