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Exoplanet Research with the James Webb Space Telescope: Julien de Wit

The night sky has guided humanity’s development since the dawn of time. As our societies and technologies evolved, so did our challenges. Could space further nurture our growth via profound experiences such as finding life elsewhere? During this talk, Dr. de Wit reflectson this question while introducing the fundamentals of exoplanetary sciences and the expected prospects as we enter a new era of astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope. Julien de Wit is an assistant professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at MIT, where he leads the Disruptive Planets Group. The Group’s mission is to discover and study new worlds to consolidate our understanding of planets and habitats. To this end, Julien has notably developed and applied new data-analysis techniques to map exoplanet atmospheres, study the radiative and tidal planet-star interactions in eccentric planetary systems, and constrain the atmospheric properties and mass of exoplanets via transmission spectroscopy. Julien received a M.Res. in Astrophysics and M.Sc. in Aeronautic from ISAE (France) in 2010, a M.Sc. Aerospace from ULiege (Belgium) in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences from MIT (USA) in 2014. In addition, he notably received the Pioneer of the Year 2017 and Innovator of the Year 2017 of MIT Review’s Innovators Under 35 for Europe and Belgium, respectively, an Honorary Citizenship from the city of Liege, and was the elected recipient of the NASA Group Achievement Award for the TRAPPIST-1 Team.