Laura Kreidberg | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (Bachelor), University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Awards | Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy |
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| Fields | Physics, Astronomy |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University |
| Thesis | Glimpses of Far Away Places: Intensive Atmosphere Characterization of Extrasolar Planets (2016) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacob L. Bean |
Laura Kreidberg is an American astronomer who primarily studies exoplanets. Since 2020, she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, where she is leading the Atmospheric Physics of Exoplanets (APEx) department. She is MPIA's managing director as of January 2024.