Jennifer Wiseman
Jennifer Wiseman is the Director of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion program. She is also an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she heads the Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics. She studies the formation of stars and planetary systems using radio, optical, and infrared telescopes. Dr. Wiseman studied physics for her bachelor's degree at MIT, discovering comet Wiseman-Skiff in 1987. After earning her Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1995, she continued her research as a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory as a Hubble Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. She is also a public speaker and author, and enjoys giving talks on the excitement of science and astronomy to schools, youth and church groups, and civic organizations. She is a councilor of the American Astronomical Society and the President of the American Scientific Affiliation.
