What's the weather like on alien planets?
Speaker: Dr Anjali Piette, Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham
Over 5600 exoplanets have been discovered beyond our solar system, including lava worlds, ocean planets and ultra-heated gas giants. Although these exotic exoplanets can be hundreds of light years away, we are able to measure the properties of their atmospheres using telescopes such as the recently-launched James Webb Space Telescope.
In this talk, Dr Piette will discuss some of the latest discoveries we made, revealing how extreme weather can be on alien worlds.
About the speaker
Dr Anjali Piette is an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham. She grew up in Durham in a multicultural Belgian-French-Indian family, and went on to do an undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Astrophysics. Following this, Anjali spent two and a half years working in Washington DC, at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Her work focuses on exoplanets and their atmospheres, which she studies with a vibrant and friendly team of collaborators from around the world.