Laura Kreidberg, Ph.D.

Kreidberg is the founding director of the APEx Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research focuses on the characterization of extrasolar planet atmospheres, and she is a frequent user of space-based telescopes. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize and the American Astronomical Society’s 2021 Annie Jump Cannon Award. Before her move to Germany, Laura was a Clay fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a Harvard Junior Fellow. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2016 and was an undergraduate at Yale University.