University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Advisory Council

Barger, Amy

Bauer, Annie

Onset of plate tectonics and the rise of atmospheric oxygen on Earth, geochemical constraints on eukaryote habitats Research Website Department of Geoscience

Baum, David

Evolutionary biologist whose research program strives to understand the principles underlying the emergence of life Research Website Department of Biology Wisconsin Institute of Discovery

Forest, Katrina

Structural microbiologist and protein crystallographer with expertise in bacterial cell structure and function Department of Bacteriology

Hamers, Robert

Surface chemistry and surface photochemistry Research Website Department of Chemistry

Heinz, Sebastian

Modeling the impact of supermassive black holes on their galactic environments, studies of interstellar dust through X-ray dust tomography Department of Astronomy

L’Ecuyer, Tristan

Satellite remote sensing of Earth’s atmosphere and cryosphere and applications of Earth observations for diagnosing the climates of other planets Research Website Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (Space Science & Engineering Center)

Orr, Vanessa

UW-Madison Chemistry PhD’21

Soares-Furtado, Melinda

The detection and characterization of young planets; computational models of stars/planets, planetary engulfment events; stellar variability; stellar age diagnostics Research Website Department of Astronomy Department of Physics

Widicus Weaver, Susanna

Prebiotic astrochemistry, observational astronomy, astrochemical modeling, and molecular spectroscopy Research Website Department of Astronomy Department of Chemistry