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Jean-Michel Désert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam's Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy. He completed his PhD on exoplanet atmospheres at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in 2009. Following this, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard College Observatory in the USA, where he worked on NASA’s Kepler mission and became a Carl Sagan fellow at Caltech in 2013. Désert then joined the University of Colorado Boulder before returning to the University of Amsterdam in 2015. He has been recognized as a laureate of the NWO-TOPII ERC Starting Grant. His research focuses on detecting and characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby stars, with the goal of answering key questions regarding the formation and evolution of exoplanets, as well as explaining the origins and characteristics of the Solar System, including Earth. A significant part of his work involves studying exoplanet atmospheres to learn about their composition and overall physical properties. Désert conducts observational programs in comparative exoplanetology utilizing facilities such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Spitzer, Kepler, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT). His pioneering techniques are aimed at characterizing potentially habitable exoplanets, contributing to future research capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs).
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