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Dave Charbonneau awarded a Blavatnik Fellowship

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Dave Charbonneau has been awarded the 2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering. The award citation recognizes: "pioneering discoveries in the field of exoplanets and the development of novel observational...

Professor David Charbonneau wins the Sackler Prize

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Dave Charbonneau has won the Sackler Prize in Physics for 2012. This award recognizes Dave's seminal contributions to our understanding of extra-solar planets. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Tel Aviv on June 12th. Dave shares the award with...

David Charbonneau selected as Harvard College Professor

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David Charbonneau, Harvard Astronomy, was one of five faculty selected as Harvard College Professors, a five-year appointment that provides them with extra support for research or scholarly activities. Read More: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016...

Congratulations Dave Charbonneau - 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate

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Harvard Astronomy Professor David Charbonneau has won the 2024 Kavli Prize jointly with MIT astrophysicist and former Harvard grad student Sara Seager! Dave led the discovery team of the first transit of the giant exoplanet HD 209458b which allowed the...

Dave Charbonneau featured in University of Chicago Big Brains podcast on exoplanets.

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Quick link https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/hunt-alien-life-and-exopl…

Dave Charbonneau gave the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture to open the 2025 AAS 245th meeting

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Dave Charbonneau gave the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture to open the 2025 AAS 245th meeting. The AAS Vice Presidents name a special invited lecturer to kick off each AAS meeting with a presentation on recent research of great importance. Dave's featured talk...

Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a  2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award

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Dave Charbonneau has been selected for a 2023 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award ( https://engage.gsas.harvard. edu/news/218515) . This is hosted by the Graduate Student Council and is presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty...

Professor David Charbonneau was selected among the 100 Alumni of Influence of the University of Toronto

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Professor David Charbonneau was selected among the 100 Almuni of Influence of the University of Toronto in Canada. The Alumni of Influence were selected based their contributions to their professional field at an international, national, or local level...

David Charbonneau

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Research Interests: Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, with the goal of studying inhabited worlds. In pursuit of this goal I also pursue novel ground-based and space-based instrumentation, and studies of stellar astrophysics.

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Astronomy Department Chair David Charbonneau Administrative Staff Department Administrator: Peg Herlihy Graduate Coordinator: Mark Palmer Faculty Assistant for Profs. Berger, Eisenstein, and Conroy: Lisa Catella Division Administrator for Profs. Loeb...

Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs - feature Astronomy Alumni

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This article appeared in Nature magazine entitled " Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs," by science writer Nicola Jones,The five projects with highlighted researchers that he selected are: Distant signs of Life ( Charbonneau)...

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Astronomy Department Chair: David Charbonneau Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics Administrative Staff Ms. Peg Herlihy Department Administrator 60 Garden Street, P-229 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-3753 pherlihy@cfa.harvard.edu Mark Palmer Graduate...